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HBO Goes With Adobe For 'TV Everywhere'

2009-08-03T19:28:00.000-07:00

HBO will provide encrypted video content to distribution partners for "TV Everywhere"-style services using Adobe Systems' Flash multimedia platform and PlayerBox which can make a stand-alone webplayer, although the premium programmer said it's amenable to working with other Internet-video technologies.
HBO's broadband-video complement for TV subscribers, dubbed HBO Go, will use Flash and the Adobe-developed encrypted Real-Time Messaging Protocol, referred to as "RTMPE," HBO chief technology officer Bob Zitter said in an interview.
"The Flash player is relatively ubiquitous across PCs and Macs," Zitter said. "It was important to us to make this offering work on Macs as well as PCs."
At the same time, HBO will work on an operator-by-operator basis before the full TV Everywhere vision -- meaning any cable, satellite or telco TV customers can access content from any participating site -- is in place industrywide. "If the distributor wants to use a different security wrapper that will be up to them," Zitter said.
Last month HBO said it will participate in Comcast's 5,000-home nationwide trial of On Demand Online. That will give HBO subscribers in the beta test access to full-length episodes of original series like True Blood, The Wire and The Sopranos, as well as movies including Transformers and The Dark Knight.
For the trial, Comcast will use the adaptive-rate Internet video player from Move Networks, with video provided via its Fancast and Comcast.net portals. Zitter said HBO enlisted consultants to assess the Move Networks player, and he said the technology is "encrypting the content to our satisfaction."
"As we roll out HBO Go, we're working through the technical aspects on a bilateral basis with the distributor that we're working with," Zitter said. Having a common Internet video platform across the industry "may have some value," he said, but noted that HBO's main interest is that what distributors are using "is secure and robust, and we have the right to approve that."
In March, HBO and two other Time Warner Inc. companies -- Turner Broadcasting System and Warner Bros. Entertainment -- announced a strategic alliance with Adobe to develop "next-generation video" across multiple distribution platforms.
Initially the video for HBO Go will be in standard-definition resolution, encoded with the MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding standard compression format. "HD is something we're contemplating," Zitter said.
HBO, in a test with Time Warner Cable's Wisconsin division initiated in January 2008, used Microsoft's Windows Media digital rights management system. However, Zitter said, Microsoft does not have a cross-platform DRM approach for streaming video.
"When we begin to offer downloads [via HBO Go], which is not in 2009 but is on our road map, we will make a separate decision for [encryption] technology," Zitter said.
He added that HBO has used digital-video "fingerprinting" technologies for several years to identify when the programmer's content is being misappropriated on the Internet.

By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News

Moyea Software Releases Moyea PlayerBox beta version

2009-08-03T02:22:00.000-07:00

Moyea Software Company released PlayerBox Beta on July 28th 2009.
PlayerBox is a web player creating application. With initiative drag and drop edit-box, you can build a web FLV player through selecting and positioning components. With wide range of components, you can create fully customized web FLV player to play FLV videos to your website. It is easy to use with well-suited-to-task options and you will not have much difficulty to find what you need on the neat interface. With Moyea FLV Player that is packaged in the program, users can enjoy the freedom to add, delete or organize playlist so easy. (You also can edit your playlist by modify the code directly, but edit it in Moyea FLV Player is easier.)

This software allows you to save the unfinished work as a project file which can be loaded for further edit, which is a great time saver. You do not need to re-build a new player for a few modifications.

Moyea PlayerBox is capable of exporting both stand-alone webplayer which can be used on webpage directly and player skin which can be used by Moyea Flash Video MX, Moyea FLV Player and publishing wizard (You need to import a player skin to publish FLV videos). Publishing wizard is included and guides you step by step to publish FLV videos on a website.

Super undo and redo function allows you to cancel misoperation.

Moyea PlayerBox Beta Version is published for free trial and feedback collecting. For those who offer us valid and constructive feedback, we offer discount on named Moyea flash related products. And place an order before the full version is released and you can enjoy a discounted price.

Microsoft offers patches to ward off ActiveX attacks

2009-07-29T01:56:00.000-07:00

Microsoft released an emergency patch on Tuesday to protect Internet Explorer users from a hole in technology used to build ActiveX controls and other Web application components that has been targeted in attacks.
A critical patch for all versions of IE will protect consumers, while a security update for Visual Studio will help developers fix the controls and components they built that could be affected.
Microsoft also has had discussions with Adobe, Sun, and Google about some components involving their software that are affected, said Mike Reavey, director of the Microsoft Security Response Center. He declined to elaborate.
Internet Explorer users running Flash Player and Shockwave Player are vulnerable, Adobe said in a blog post that contains links to the Adobe security bulletins for those products.
A Google representative said the company has been working with Microsoft on the issues but declined to comment further. And a Sun representative did not respond to a call seeking comment.
Cisco will release free software updates for any of its software that is affected by the vulnerability and is making available workarounds that mitigate the issue, the company said in a detailed advisory.
The company released two security updates that deal with a vulnerability in Microsoft's Active Template Library, which is used to build components for Web applications and which could be targeted to take control of computers of Web surfers visiting sites hosting malicious code.
The critical update, MS-09034, is targeted at IE users and the other, MS-09035, is targeted at Visual Studio developers and is rated moderate. It affects Visual Studio 2005 and 2008.
"A library can get used in a lot of places, and vulnerabilities in libraries are challenging," Reavey said. "It's an industry-wide problem when (vulnerabilities) do happen."
"The vulnerability is in the controls, not IE, however to provide protections while developers update the controls, IE (versions that are patched will block attacks)," he said.
The company warned on Friday that a security update would come on Tuesday instead of waiting for the next Patch Tuesday cycle on August 11. This is only the ninth out-of-band release Microsoft has had, according to Reavey.
Microsoft first warned about the ActiveX issue on July 6, saying a vulnerability in its Video ActiveX Control could allow an attacker to take control of a PC if the user visits a malicious Web site and attackers were exploiting the hole. The company offered a workaround for the issue.
During the July Patch Tuesday release the following week, Microsoft still did not have a patch ready and was recommending a manual "kill bit" method to disable ActiveX, or sending customers to a "Fix it for me" Web site.
However, researchers figured out a way to get around the kill bit protection mechanism, thus rendering it ineffective and exposing the system to attack, said Eric Schultze, chief technology officer at Shavlik Technologies.
"Some security researchers found that they were able to bypass the kill bit function and still execute certain controls," he said in a statement on Tuesday. "A presentation on how this is done is slated for tomorrow afternoon at the Black Hat Conference" in Las Vegas. To convert video to Flash.
"We were aware of limited attacks on the Microsoft kill bit control where the underlying issue was this vulnerability. As a result of those attacks we released the bulletin to protect customers...but that created chatter," Reavey said. "We saw more details released and we had these updates ready so we released them now instead of waiting for (attacks) to get worse."
The IE patch also resolves three privately reported vulnerabilities that could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using the browser.
Tyler Reguly, senior security researcher for nCircle, criticized Microsoft for not fixing the underlying issue with a proper patch and said the update could put other software vendors at risk. "Although Microsoft has protected against the kill bit bypass and has patched the public ATL vulnerabilities, there has been no mention or reference to fixing the issue in msvidctl.dll itself," he wrote in a statement. "One has to question what the release of the ATL patch means for other software vendors," he added. "We also have to wonder if they are now more vulnerable than they were previously. They now have to obtain this patch and recompile and release their tools. This means until that process can occur, malicious individuals can reverse the patches to pinpoint each of the vulnerabilities and target third-party software. It's a race to see who will get there first, and the vendors didn't get a head start."
In response, a Microsoft representative provided this comment: "As part of our overall response to the ATL issue, we are continuing our investigation for Microsoft components and controls that may be affected by the ATL issue and will update customers as appropriate throughout the process." More information about the vulnerabilities and fixes is in this advisory. Microsoft also scheduled a Webcast at 1 p.m. PDT on Tuesday to answer customer questions.

64-bit: Apple does not show the example

2009-07-27T19:11:00.001-07:00

With the release of Snow Leopard, Apple encourages developers to rewrite their applications in 64 bits. But the least we can say is that the Cupertino firm really does not show an example. Indeed, none of the software suite Final Cut Studio is 64 bit compatible. According to John Gruber of Daring Fireball, they are all still in Carbon (read about this: no 64 bit Carbon).

Adobe had been much criticism about this just before the release of CS4 which can convert video to Flash. The editor reported that the Windows version of Photoshop is optimized 64-bit unlike the Mac version. For the latter, Adobe had indicated that it would take at least wait until the release of CS5. Photoshop is a large project written in Carbon, Adobe developers needed more time to "dust off" his code. At the time, John Nack had estimated that the change from Carbon to Cocoa could affect up to one million lines of code for a program like Photoshop (read: Cocoa and 64-bit Photoshop CS5 menu).

Apple does not, therefore, better and Adobe has not provided any information on this topic. The Californian company may attend the exit and widespread Snow Leopard to tackle this enormous project and market a version of Final Cut Studio that is both 64-bit and optimized for Snow Leopard. Many of these technologies in the latter (OpenCL, Grand Central ...) it would probably be thrilled.

Hackers may slip through hole found in Adobe tools

2009-07-27T04:47:00.000-07:00

Cybercriminals may have a clear path to spread mayhem on computers this week by taking advantage of a newly discovered vulnerability in Adobe's (ADBE) ubiquitous Flash video player and Acrobat Reader, the widely used tool for opening PDF documents.
Since early July, troublemakers have been e-mailing PDF files with corrupted Flash video clips and hacking into websites to implant them. These clips, when activated, enable attackers to quickly install malicious programs on the user's computer. And convert video to flash.
Criminals typically take control of PCs, turning them into obedient "bots." They can use bot networks to steal data, siphon cash from online financial accounts, spread spam and trigger promotions to sell fake anti-virus programs.
The number of attacks could soar this week as Adobe scrambles to develop an emergency patch by Friday. The company recently began issuing security patches once a quarter, with the next update scheduled on Sept. 8.
"The volume of cybercrime has been increasing, so we've stepped up our efforts to supply best-in-class security," says Rob Tarkoff, Adobe's senior vice president and general manager of business productivity.
But even that might not solve the problem. Adobe alerts computer users every seven days about software updates that can include security patches, but users often defer installing such updates.
As a result, "We may see a broad-scale explosion of attacks," says Paul Royal, a senior researcher at Purewire.
The security firm has already found a booby-trapped e-mail sent to a corporate executive.
Last week, another security firm, Finjan Software, found several dozen legitimate Web pages carrying poisoned Flash clips.
Tarkoff says Adobe is doing all it can.
"Every software product is a target," he says. The challenge is to find a way to keep offering new features without creating new security problems. "That's (the balance that) we're focused on striking."
That balancing act may grow more difficult as cybercriminals probe for more weaknesses in Adobe programs.
Some 43% of the 1,500 cyberattacks identified by security firm F-Secure in the first six months of 2009 were directed at Acrobat Reader, up from nearly 29% last year.
That puts Acrobat Reader ahead of Microsoft Word, targeted in 40% of this year's attacks.
"Adobe has become the victim of its own success," says Don Leatham, director of solutions and strategy at security firm Lumension.
"They've become a very juicy target, and they need to significantly increase their efforts to secure and stabilize their code."

Most Useful 11 FAQs about Ipod

2009-07-24T01:15:00.000-07:00

This article includes 11 parts, it includes all common problems about iPod; it fits for all series of iPod including iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPod Classic, iPod Video, etc. You can also find some free sources for iPod from this article.

1. How to convert YouTube video to iPod?

There must be some wonderful videos you’ve ever watched on YouTube and want to put them on your iPod. But iPod can play only MP4 video, and YouTube video is FLV, you have to download and convert YouTube video to MP4 video at first, then you can add it into your iTunes library and sync to your iPod. You can use this online downloader and converter to download the YouTube video meanwhile to convert it to MP4: http://www.convertdirect.com/

2. How to copy music and photos from my iPod to computer?

Sometime we lost iTunes library or want to copy files from other iPod back to computer, because iTunes prevents user do that, you need special software to bypass iTunes. I’d recommend
Tansee iPod Copy Pack to you, It is a life saver when
- Sending your iPod for repair.
- Backup song/video/photo to PC.
- Moving song/video/photo to a new iPod.
- Share your iPod song/video/photo with friends.
- Computer crashed.
Note:If you want to copy files from iPhone, iTouch, and iPod back to computer, you can use this iPhone/iTouch/iPod to Computer Transfer.

3. How to download torrent video and put torrent video to iPod?

Torrent is a small file with the suffix .torrent, which contains all the information needed to download a file the torrent was made for. That means it contains file names, their sizes, where to download from and so on. You can get torrents for almost anything on lots of web sites and torrent search engines.
Torrent is the most popular way of downloading large files, including movies and games (remember legality of downloading). Downloading with a torrent is advantageous especially when downloading files, which are momentarily very popular and whitch lots of people are downloading. Because the more people download the file, the higher speed for everyone. The following software will help you do that.

4. How to rip DVD movie and convert video to iPod?

If you want to watch some videos that you download from internet or you already have it on DVD and don't want to pay for it again on itunes. You can use a third part software to help you to do this.
As for Windows user, you can use this Pavtube DVD Ripper. It is professional as well as easy to use DVD ripping software. It can convert DVD to iPod, iPhone, Zune, Creative Zen, iRiver, PSP, Xbox360, Pocket PC and Apple TV etc. Pavtube DVD Ripper rips fast and exports excellence only.
As for Mac user, you can use the Mac version of this software.

5. How to put limewire free movie to iPod?

Because iPod can play only MP4 and H.264 FLV. If your download limewire videos are not compatible with iPod, you can use this iPod Video Converter to convert them to MP4 video for iPod Touch/Nano/Classic. (Don't use iTunes to convert limewire video, because most limewire videos are muxed video, muxed video converted by iTunes will lost sound, you can learn more info about this problem by referring Apple official document: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302588 )
So if you want to put limewire movie to iPod, you can use this software.

6. How to share iTunes Music and videos between two computers for free?

Some people may meet that situation: You and your brother both have iTunes library under the same credit card account. Occasionally, you want to get the same song, however you wouldn't want you both to pay the $.99 where virtually the same account is purchasing the song twice. So how can you and/or he download the songs from each other once it's purchased on a single computer? There is a guide to tell you how to share iTunes Music and videos between two computers such as sharing iTunes Music and videos between Windows PC and Windows PC, sharing iTunes Music and videos between Mac OS and Mac OS X and sharing iTunes Music and videos between Windows PC and Mac OS X.

7. How to burn your iPod/iTunes music and videos to DVD?

Many users want to burn DRM protected iTunes videos/movies/TV shows to DVD playable on home DVD player and enjoy on the widescreen TV. I know you can enjoy iTunes movie on TV with Apple TV, but why do you have to spend more $299 if you can do that with some easy software. You can try the following software or see this article: “Free video burner soft”.

8. Where to download music and movie for iPod Touch/Nano/Classic/Video

1. iTunes store: $0.99 for one song, $9.99 for one movie, $1.99 for one TV show.
2. Limewire is fast and popular file sharing freeware working on Windows, Linux and Mac OS. Through the P2P (peer-to-peer) network, you can free download various files by its category or keyword searching.
3. Other stream video website such as Yahoo, MySpace, etc. here is a list of free stream video website: “Top 10 Movie Sites!”

9. Where to download free software to rip DVD and convert video to iPod?

Why shouldn't you watch the movies you paid for on the device of your choice? With these DVD rippers and converters, you can.
There are two categories of tools you'll need. The first are DVD rippers, which extract the video and audio files from DVDs and put them on your hard drive. Once there, you can use a DVD converter app to transcode the files to a format that's playable on your iPod, PSP, TiVo, Apple TV, or whatever other device you might be using.
You can get these free software from here.

10. How can I watch my iPod movie on large screen TV?

Set up your iPod video options. On your iPod choose Videos -> Video Settings from the main menu. You will see three options: TV Out, TV Signal and Widescreen. Select the “TV Out” option.

Get your A/V cable. If you don't have an eighth-inch-to-RCA cable, you can pick one up on eBay for five or six bucks shipped. Search for "camcorder A/V cable." Remember, you want a three-plug yellow/red/white RCA connection at one end and a three-banded eighth-inch (3.5mm) A/V plug at the other.
1. Plug the red RCA plug into your TV's yellow RCA jack.
2. Plug the yellow RCA plug into your TV's white RCA jack.
3. Plug the white RCA plug into your TV's red RCA jack.
After making these connections, you're physically ready to begin playback.

11: How to transfer music and video from iPod to iPod?

Many people own more than one iPod, iPod 2 iPod is a program that allows you to transfer your music and video between them. Until now this hasn't been possible without losing all your existing songs. iPod 2 iPod gives you the power to take control of your music collection.

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Zevrix releases LinkOptimizer 4.0 for Adobe InDesign

2009-07-23T01:32:00.001-07:00

Zevrix has released version 4.0 of LinkOptimizer, an upgrade to the workflow automation solution to optimize InDesign jobs. The new version sports 20 newfeatures and improvements, including settings presets, resampling methods, detailed processing logs and a redesigned user interface.
With its core rewritten in Cocoa, LinkOptimizer 4 is the first ever Cocoa-based plug-in for InDesign, according to the folks at Zevrix. LinkOptimizer allows users to reduce InDesign job cost through faster output, smaller job size and automatic image processing. The new version introduces over 20 new features, including image format conversion, resolution oversampling, link preview, process logs and optimizing several documents of similar design at once.
LinkOptimizer 4.0 can be purchased from the Zevrix Solutions web site for US$219.95. Upgrades from previous versions are $87.95. A demo is available for download.
LinkOptimizer is available for Mac OS X 10.4.2 and higher. It’s an Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. LinkOptimizer 3.3.6 works with Adobe InDesign CS-CS4.
Used to convert video to flash.

Adobe investigating zero-day bug in Flash

2009-07-22T19:15:00.000-07:00

Researchers on Wednesday said they have uncovered attacks in the wild in which malicious Acrobat PDF files are exploiting a vulnerability in Flash and dropping a Trojan onto computers.
The situation could affect tons of users since Flash exists in all popular browsers, is available in PDF files, and is largely operating system-independent.
Any software that uses Flash could be vulnerable to the attack, according to Symantec. Adobe Reader is vulnerable because its Flash interpreter is vulnerable, said Paul Royal, principal researcher at Purewire, a Web security services provider.
In a post on its Web site, Adobe said it "is aware of reports of a potential vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.2 and Adobe Flash Player 9 and 10. We are currently investigating this potential issue and will have an update once we get more information."
"The authors of the exploit have managed to take a bug and turn it into a reliable exploit using a heap spray technique," Patrick Fitzgerald writes on a Symantec Security blog post.
"Typically an attacker would entice a user to visit a malicious Web site or send a malicious PDF via e-mail," he writes. "Once the unsuspecting user visits the Web site or opens the PDF this exploit will allow further malware to be dropped onto the victim's machine. The malicious PDF files are detected as Trojan.Pidief.G and the dropped files as Trojan Horse."
It appears the exploit was first developed about two weeks ago, Royal said. The bug itself has been around since December 2008.
The hole is exploitable on Windows XP and Vista users are protected if User Account Control (UAC) is enabled, Symantec said.
US-CERT offered information about workarounds on its Web site:
• Disable Flash in Adobe Reader 9 on Windows platforms by renaming the following files: "%ProgramFiles%\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader\authplay.dll" and "%ProgramFiles%\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader\rt3d.dll".
• Disable Flash Player or selectively enable Flash content as described in the "Securing Your Web Browser" document.

Adobe offers up more Flash technology to open source Move follows Microsoft’s Linux effort by a day; Canonical also makes open source move

2009-07-21T04:03:00.000-07:00

Adobe Systems will offer more of its Flash rich media application platform up to open source Tuesday, a move viewed by analysts as reactive to the fierce competition Adobe faces in the rich Internet application space from the Microsoft Silverlight platform.
Also in the open source realm Tuesday, Canonical, commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, will offer code for the Launchpad software development and collaboration platform in an open source format.
Adobe will make available via open source the company's OSMF (Open Source Media Framework) and Text Layout Framework. Formerly part of the "Strobe" project, OSMF allows for software-based media players to be built based on the Flash platform. Individuals could, for example, add new functionality around the Flash Player.
Text Layout Framework allows users to "to do all the things you want to do with text to make it really cool" on the Flash platform, said McAllister. Sophisticated typography capabilities can be added to Web applications.
The two offerings follow previous Adobe efforts to open source parts of the platform. Previous Flash technologies released via open source have included Flex and its compilers, and the Tamarin virtual machine. Specifications also have been released for streaming formats (convert video to Flash)
"People quite often think that the Flash platform is a closed platform, Adobe-only," McAllister said. "What we're doing is continuing this commitment to making the unique features of the Flash platform open."
Although Adobe insisted its latest open source efforts were not done as any sort of response to Microsoft's Silverlight, analysts nonetheless saw a Microsoft angle.
"It's yet another example of the serve and volley going [on] in the RIA space," said Jeffrey Hammond, principal analyst for application development at Forrester. "Adobe and Microsoft are pushing each other hard, and as a result, the state of the art for RIAs is advancing at an amazing rate."
"Adobe is in a race with Microsoft for RIAs, and open source is a powerful way for Adobe to level the playing field considering Microsoft's huge mindshare and adoption among developers," said Melissa Webster, program vice president for content and digital media technologies at IDC.
The core Flash Player and Flex Builder IDE remain unavailable to open source. " McAllister said. "There's code inside the Flash Player that we don't own," such as codec technology, he said. Flex Builder, meanwhile, is built atop the open source Eclipse IDE.
Still, developers have more open source options with Adobe than with Silverlight, said Webster. She also cited Adobe's Open Screen Project as an example of openness.
"Yes, the Flash Player remains Adobe-proprietary, however with the Open Screen Project, developers can write their own servers to stream media to the Flash Player," Webster said.
Adobe's OSMF and Text Layout Framework better enable companies to take advantage of capabilities of Flash 10 without having to understand all the "nuts and bolts of low-level ActionScript calls and functions," said Hammond. ActionScript is the programming language for the Flash platform.
Adobe is working with Akamai to coordinate OSMF with Akamai's Open Video Player initiative. The companies will provide a framework enabling partners such as developers and content owners to build new services with high-end features.
Canonical's Launchpad, meanwhile, lets developers host and share code for free using the Bazaar version control system. Developers now can contribute directly to Launchpad themselves.
"Launchpad is designed to accelerate collaboration between open source projects," said Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth, in a statement released by the company.
"Making Launchpad itself open source fulfills a long term intention to give the users of Launchpad the ability to improve the service they use every day," Shuttleworth said.
While open source projects are hosted for free on Launchpad, closed source projects can use the service for a fee.

Adobe Offering Insecure Reader Software

2009-07-20T19:09:00.001-07:00

Despite making a commitment earlier this year to scrutinize its code for bugs more closely, Adobe is offering insecure software on its Web site.
Adobe's Web site makes Adobe Reader 9.10 available to users. Yet in May the company released Reader 9.11 to address at least one critical vulnerability. And in June the company released Reader 9.12 to fix nine critical vulnerabilities.
Secunia, a computer security company based in Denmark, said its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) tool will help users identify Adobe's out-of-date software.
Mikkel Winther, PSI partner manager, said in an e-mailed statement, that PC users need to be diligent about patching. "They need to patch all their vulnerable programs and they need to do so as fast as possible after the patch has been issued from the vendor," he said. "Failing to do so is playing Russian Roulette with your IT security."
In an e-mailed statement, an Adobe spokesperson said, "Adobe Reader 9.1 for Windows is the most recent full installer of the product. Adobe Reader 9.1.1 and 9.1.2 for Windows are patches that require Adobe Reader 9.1 to be present. This is the reason users are offered Adobe Reader 9.1 via the 'Get Adobe Reader' page on Adobe.com. Once Adobe Reader 9.1 is installed, the Adobe Updater will subsequently offer the Adobe Reader 9.1.1 and 9.1.2 patches. Or, alternately, the end user can manually apply the patches via the Product updates section of our Web site."
The problem with this approach is that there's a window of vulnerability between the time that the user downloads the software and the time that the software gets patched by Adobe's update tool.
Adobe didn't immediately respond to a follow-up question about how long that window of vulnerability might last.
That period of vulnerability might be extended if the user declines to accept, or defers, an update because he or she does not want to be interrupted at the moment the updater requests authorization.
Were a user without Reader installed to click on a malicious PDF file on a Web site, the user's computer would be at risk because it would download a vulnerable version of Reader to open the unsafe PDF.
Update: Adobe says the the window of vulnerability is small because its updater tries to update Reader immediately and every seven days thereafter, automatically. However, the company acknowledges that the scenario suggested by Secunia -- clicking on a malicious PDF without Reader installed -- could lead to a compromised system.
An Adobe spokesperson explained, "The updater runs on a separate thread the main Reader process, so a user double-clicking on a PDF file would usually open the file (and trigger a possible attack) before the update manager could prompt the user to apply an update. The updater does not block the main Reader process from executing."
The company says it continues to look at ways to "to further narrow the window of exposure." And of course you can not use it to convert video to Flash.

Adobe Offering Insecure Reader Software

2009-07-20T19:09:00.000-07:00

Suspects Open Fire On Police, 5 Officers Injured

2009-07-16T23:32:00.000-07:00

An early morning shoot out Thursday in Jersey City, New Jersey has left two suspects dead and five officers injured - in what may have been the result of a police department investigation into an armed robbery last week, officials said.

The injured officers have been identified as Frank Molina Jr., 35, Michael Camacho, 25, Marc DiNardo, 37, Marc Lavelle, 43, and Dennis Mitchell, whose age has not been identified.
According to Jersey City police, at around 5:15 a.m. an armed black man and woman, wearing long robes and black hoodies, shot at officers at 24 Reed Street in Jersey City. One resident told PIX News that she heard "intense gunfire" as officers returned fire.

In fact, one of the suspects, who have tentatively been identified as 32-year-old Hassan A. Shakur and 23-year-old Amanda Anderson, shedded an outer garment to access a pump shotgun, which is, according to Jersey City Police Chief Thomas Comey, a combat weapon.
PIX News learned that at around 6:45 a.m. the suspects, were 'neutralized.' Jersey City police confirmed Shakur and Anderson were shot and killed by officers. They were apparently cornered in a building, on the corner of Reed Street and Bergen Avenue, which was first searched and evacuated.

Earlier, the pair were able to escape police and an intense manhunt for them included all New Jersey police units. Later, Port Authority police units, K-9 Units, New Jersey State troopers and Emergency Services Unit snipers were called to the scene of the shooting to assist local police in the search that included area rooftops.

Residents told PIX News they saw snipers on rooftops and officers jumping from rooftop to rooftop possibly in pursuit of the suspects,. In addition, cops said that the building where the suspects were subdued is known for drug sales activity and believe the gunfire began with a drug deal gone wrong.

"It was a guy selling drugs and he probably sold some bad drugs and the guy came back to retaliate," said a local resident who witnessed the shooting. "So when they seen the cops coming that's when they shot at the cops. That's probably how they cop got shot. Then they ran into the alleyway so they must have went into the window from the back and go in through the window on the first floor."

According to residents, violence has plagued the area and surrounding communities for many years, leaving some unfazed by the bloodshed that happens on a regular basis. Although they say it happens all the time, some neighbors who spoke to PIX News described Thursday's shootings as "intense" and at times "frightening."

At a press conference Thursday afternoon, Jersey City Police Chief Thomas Comey expressed outrage at how gun violence has become almost accepted in the area and lashed out at loopholes in the law that continue to allow such deadly weapons to be on the street and in the hands of criminals.

"Somebody's gotta wake up and smell the coffee, and say enough is enough," Comey said about taking illegal guns off the streets of the community. "Stop being afraid of the NRA, and start being afraid of our own rights."

Molina a 15-year veteran of the force, who was shot in the back, remains in the Jersey City Medical Center for observation. Camacho, a five-year-veteran, who was shot in the neck, remains in critical condition, as does DiNardo, a 10-year veteran, who was shot in the face. Lavelle, a 20-year veteran, who was shot in the leg, was treated and released, as was Mitchell, a seven-year veteran of the Port Authority police force, who was shot in the arm.

Witnesses say one officer was bleeding from his face and PIX videographer John Fine assisted the male officer into an ambulance. The officer told PIX News that he was, "okay despite the way he looks." He may have been one of the officers who was grazed with a bullet.

Authorities believe Shakur and Anderson may have been involved with a June shooting caught on surveillance tape, but are currently waiting for fingerprint results before making a solid identification.

President Barack Obama, who was visiting Holmdel, New Jersey today, attending a fundraiser at the P&C Art Center for a fundraiser event held by Gov. Jon Corzine, spoke to reporters and emphasized the dangers officers through on a daily basis.

"Our thoughts and prayers go out to all the families of those hurt," Obama said. The shooting "shows the sacrifice our law enforcement officers and their families go through every day." And convert video to Flash.

Adobe Releases First Beta of ColdFusion 9

2009-07-15T23:56:00.000-07:00

Adobe Systems this week released the public beta of the next version of its ColdFusion Web development platform. The new version, dubbed ColdFusion 9, will come with an optional integrated development environment (IDE).
By adding the new IDE, dubbed ColdFusion Builder, Adobe is adding capabilities for more sophisticated developers that ColdFusion has lacked. Among other features, Adobe said it will offer a more customized and extensible development environment for coding data-driven applications, offer server management and debugging.
Originally developed by Allair in the mid 1990s and retained by Adobe when it acquired Macromedia, Adobe said there 800,000 ColdFusion developers. But it faces steep competition including Ruby on Rails, Java Server Pages and Microsoft's ASP.NET and others.
"There are a variety of options that were not there a few years ago," said Gartner analyst Eric Knipp. But he added, the new upgrade is substantial and will likely appeal to the more advanced ColdFusion developers. "A lot of the features that are in ColdFusion 9 are features that the advanced ColdFusion developer community has been clamoring for, for a long time."
Notably is the ability to access any part the language from the ColdFusion scripting language, CF Script, and its support for object relational mapping (ORM) to databases via integration with Hibernate, he said.
ColdFusion 9 will integrate with Adobe's forthcoming Flash Builder 4 framework, released to beta last month "For the first time we are really able to offer a full server side to client side development work flow, with all of our tools and our technology," said Adam Lehman, Adobe's ColdFusion product manager.
"Cold Fusion Builder is an Eclipse based plug-in similar to the Flash Builder, so you basically are installing one inside each other. If I am developing server side code and I want to kick over to write some client access code, and I am in the Flex [Flash] world, all of a sudden I am in the same IDE. We've done a lot to maintain a lot of the fidelity between the two"
The Hibernate support will make it easier developers to provide bi-directional synchronization to databases by providing support for Hibernate-based object relational mapping (ORM). Through the integration, Lehman said developers will be able to access all of the Hibernate internals.
"Today developers spend a lot of time taking that tabular data and basically converting SQL into CFCs ColdFusion Components when they are writing SQL code for inserts and updates and then moving that into this object model," Lehman said. "Because we are basically removing SQL that means we are truly building database independent applications."
While the ORM support should be welcome by ColdFusion developers, Gartner's Knipp said that capability that is now expected. "I don’t know it’s something that's going to win people over to the language, it might keep them from leaving," he said.
Also new in ColdFusion 9 is Server Manager, a Flex-based AIR application that will allow for the administration of ColdFusion Servers. Developers can run the manager on the desktop and control settings and receive alerts, Lehman said. "You can deploy a data source or update our JVM arguments or even deploy a hot fix," he said.
On the integration side, while ColdFusion 8 introduced support for native .NET code and Exchange, ColdFusion 9 adds native support for Microsoft SharePoint services. Developers can build Web Parts in SharePoint via the ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML), including support for single sign on.
"Everything ColdFusion has access to can now be exposed to SharePoint Server, but we also have a way to talk to the SharePoint back-end services, so if you are building an application that needs to interact with a document repository or some of the content management features, you can do that with native CFML, you don’t have to learn any .NET APIs or anything like that," Lehman said.
The new release will also allow developers and users to create, read and update Excel spreadsheets, generate PDFs from Word and PowerPoint, and create Flash presentations from PowerPoint,
For Java developers, ColdFusion 9 will integrate with key portlet servers via support for JSR-168, JSR 268 and Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP).
The new release will also include Adobe's Blaze DS, which will support high speed Flash remoting.
Lehman is not saying when ColdFusion is going to be released but he indicated the company is hoping to ship by the end of the year. Pricing was not disclosed.
Use it to convert video to Flash .

Software That Makes Twitter So Much Tweeter

2009-07-14T19:47:00.000-07:00

Most people who aren’t familiar with Twitter are eager to list the reasons why they don’t use this social-networking service. It’s for narcissists. It’s for teenagers. It’s for people who have nothing better to do. It’s a forum for oversharing. While all of these things may be true in some cases, I find Twitter’s 140-character messaging network to be an incredibly useful tool in my everyday life.
I use Twitter as my personalized news feed by following people who “tweet” (write updates) about things that interest me. In one glance I can read White House correspondent Mark Knoller’s tweets about President Obama’s activities, a recipe tweeted by Martha Stewart and WSJ.com tweets with links to news stories.
But Twitter works best with a little help from its friends, namely those programs that are designed to make it more customized and useful with minimal work on the user’s behalf. Here’s a rundown of just some of these helpers. I’m focusing only on ones that run on your computer, either in Web browsers or as stand-alone programs. There is also a plethora of Twitter applications that work on mobile devices like the iPhone and BlackBerry, too many to go into here. A few Twitter programs let you lurk and read tweets without a Twitter account, but in most cases these programs require a Twitter user name and password so they can better organize tweets of the people whom you follow.
To get a Twitter account in the first place, you will need to sign up with a user name and password at Twitter.com and start following people—or subscribing to read someone’s updates. These may be friends or people you simply find interesting, like journalists whose work you read (my Twitter user name is kabster728). You can see whom one person follows, and then opt also to follow those same people and the people those people follow and so on. Though it’s possible to lock your account so it’s private, very few people do so because Twitter encourages open communication throughout the Web.
That said, you can always choose to block someone from following you or stop following someone’s Twitter feed. You can comment on a tweet by sending the person who wrote it an “at reply,” named because the reply starts with the “@” sign followed by the user name of the person to whom you are replying. You can also send direct messages to another Twitter user as long as he or she is following you.
All-Purpose Programs
TweetDeck and Seesmic are two programs that do a good job of filtering others’ tweets and aiding the process of writing tweets. Both use Adobe Air, a tool that lets the program work in the background while continuously refreshing its content. This increases productivity because the programs can be set to display pop-up notifications whenever certain tweets appear.
TweetDeck (a free download at TweetDeck.com) organizes tweets into columns that you designate, such as a column of all tweets that mention your name, your company’s name or the word “Wimbledon.” It eases the process of writing tweets by building in ways to shorten Web links, post photos or translate a tweet into one of 35 languages. TweetDeck also integrates with Facebook so that one TweetDeck column displays your Facebook friends’ latest status updates.
The most recent version of TweetDeck enables synchronization of accounts with an email and password. This means that you can download TweetDeck on several computers, log into your account and see the same columns and settings on all platforms. The new version also includes fun extras like search within each column and the option to show how many followers a user has by displaying that number below his or her tweets.
Seesmic (a free download at seesmic.com) is another all-purpose Twitter program. It works much like TweetDeck, but has a few differences. Seesmic also integrates with Facebook, but does so in a more robust way, showing when Facebook friends share photos or Web links and letting you comment on or “like” someone’s status; TweetDeck only shows Facebook status updates.
Seesmic lets you drag photos into a small window for sharing via Twitter. But its overall look isn’t as visually appealing as TweetDeck’s and it lacks some of TweetDeck’s extra features.
Twhirl (twhirl.org) also runs on Adobe Air, working in the background as you use your computer for other activities. Like the aforementioned programs, it also enables easier tweeting with built-in tools for photo uploading and URL shrinking. Unlike TweetDeck and Seesmic, which focus on Twitter and Facebook, Twhirl enables logging into four types of accounts: Twitter, FriendFeed, Laconi.ca and Identica. But Twhirl shows only one category at a time, like a screen of replies, rather than showing all of these categories at a glance like TweetDeck and Seesmic.
Browser Power
Some Twitter programs run in browsers, not as stand-alone programs. This saves you from downloading a program on multiple computers because you can simply log into your account on any computer using its Web browser. But these programs won’t use the helpful pop-up notifications of Adobe Air; instead, you will need to look in your browser to see new information—like opening Twitter.com.
One such browser-based program is HootSuite (HootSuite.com), which uses an owl as its mascot. HootSuite’s unique features include its ability to set tweets to send at a later time or date, giving your followers the illusion that you are tweeting when you’re actually not, and a built-in statistic-tracker to measure how many people opened a link you posted using its ow.ly URL shortener. Like Twhirl, HootSuite shows only certain categories at a time rather than one overall glance at many categories of tweets.
Twitter.com is getting better, though it’s still weak compared with these other programs. I’ve used add-ons in my Firefox browser to enhance Twitter, and one called Power Twitter is like steroids for Twitter.com, adding photo uploading and link shortening right into the Web site. It also makes friends’ tweets richer by displaying details about any Web links that they share.
No Sign-Up Necessary
If you’re just curious about Twitter and want to see what people are talking about without signing up, try sites that are open to everyone. Twitterfall.com, for example, displays tweets about trending Twitter topics and custom search results in a waterfall-like visual with new tweets spilling over the top every half second. TwitterVision.com cleverly displays tweets around the world on a global map as they are posted, showing where the tweets are from, geographically.
Twitter isn’t limited to Twitter.com, and I wouldn’t likely use it as much were it not for programs like the ones I’ve mentioned and others. So give them a try and find out what makes Twitter useful for you.

Now we can see that everything can not leave Flash. Flash became more and more important, maybe some years later there will be not normal video format. You have to convert video to Flash.

From: news.google.com

Apple Rumor: $800 Tablet Due in October

2009-07-14T00:10:00.000-07:00

The rumors may be getting closer to the truth, or vice versa, as a report surfaced from Taiwan today that Apple plans to releases its much discussed tablet computer this October. Guesstimated pricing: $800.
The Taiwanese site InfoTimes reports (in Chinese) that the device will have a 9.7-inch touchscreen, making it a tad smaller than most netbooks but adding touchcreen features and iPod mystique.
October would be a reasonable time for such an announcement, since Apple would be unlikely to announce much before availability in its stores, and such an announcement would be close enough to Christmas for the tablet to become 2009's hot gift item--at least for Apple fans.
InfoTimes sources its report to various supposed parts and manufacturing partners, which adds some weight to the rumor. As is usual, Apple won't say anything about new products and its partners also remain officially mum, at least if they want to remain an Apple partner.
The InfoTimes report is in broad agreement with earlier reports of an Apple tablet, then supposedly due in 2010. If the device is due in the next 9 months, October is a good choice for a release date.
Target market? The safe guess is that the tablet would be an oversized iPod touch, aimed primarily at entertainment users. However, for those used to sending email and doing other "work" on their iPhones, the tablet might be a pleasant step up, at least in terms of the size of its virtual keyboard.
While this is still the stuff of rumor, it seems to be circling in on something. The price makes sense, as does what little is heard of the specifications. Apple will want to have a hot new product for the holidays and a big-screen iPod makes a lot of sense as portable video gains in popularity.
This isn't the MacPad tablet computer that I'd like to see--I want a real keyboard--but the current rumor doesn't rule it out, either. And it may be that an Apple tablet computer and an iPod on steroids are better as separate devices.
If you want to put YouTube video in ipod, you need convert it to MP4 file. Or convert video to Flash

Microsoft's Flash-challenger Silverlight 3 hits web

2009-07-13T02:09:00.000-07:00

The next version of Microsoft's Flash-challenger media player has hit the web, ahead of Friday's official launch.
The final Silverlight 3 runtime for users and software development kit (SDK) for programmers have been published to the web and were available for download as of Thursday afternoon. You can get the SDK here and player here.
The player comes in a package that Microsoft promised would download in 10 seconds, but it seems to take a little longer judging from my experiences.
Microsoft's plans a formal launch of Silverlight 3 at a San Francisco, California event Friday morning.
The release comes ahead of Microsoft's massive Worldwide Partner Conference, where the company will evangelize Silverlight 3 against Adobe Systems' Flash and creative tools.

Version three closes many gaps in Microsoft's player that have held it back against Flash. Features include integration with a browser's forward and back button, ClearType for Windows and Mac, hardware acceleration, the ability to work offline and run outside the browser without an additional download. Plus there's support for touch-based input.
Partners also get a set of controls for charting and layout along with the (expected) integration with Visual Studio and the Expression Suite. While partners may be excited by Expression Suite, users of Flash - which dominates the media and interface market - will not be impressed.
Overall, however, version three should finally provide an alternative for Microsoft's design partners who are tired of handing off media and interface work video to Flash experts.
Silverlight is also an important part of Microsoft's online services. The player will enable a web-based version of Microsoft's Office suite called Office Web applications, unveiled last October.
Office Web applications are now expected to be released for testing at Microsoft's partner conference next Monday in New Orleans, Louisiana, following the report of some blatant Web 2.0 self-promotion by a Rackspace employee and Twittery hints from a Microsoft evangelist.
Office Web applications are part of the planned Office 2010 suite, and they're intended by Microsoft to answer Google Apps, which come with competing word, spreadsheet, and presentation tools.
Microsoft has said in the past that Silverlight would "light up" features in Office Web applications. It'll provide sharp images, integration with Office Live Workspace to upload multiple files, and also the ability to share and edit documents simultaneously in real time.

Adobe patches ColdFusion vulnerability blocking website attack

2009-07-10T01:28:00.000-07:00

Adobe Systems Inc. has issued a patch fixing a vulnerability in its ColdFusion application development platform that left many websites at risk of intrusion.
The patch addresses ColdFusion security by turning off an uploading feature enabled by default blocking any attempt by a hacker to conduct a website attack.
According to the Adobe security bulletin, a vulnerability existed in FCKeditor, which is installed by default in ColdFusion 8. If left unpatched, the vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to upload files in arbitrary directories and ultimately lead to a system compromise.
"Adobe categorizes this as a critical issue and recommends affected users patch their installations," the software maker said in the security bulletin.
There were reports of limited attacks against some websites developed using ColdFusion. The SANS Internet Storm Center reported last week that attackers have been exploiting websites.
"The vulnerable installations allow the attackers to upload ASP or Cold Fusion shells which further allow them to take complete control over the server," wrote Bojan Zdrnja, a SANS ISC handler.
Adobe issued a hot fix to address the issue. The update turns off file upload capabilities by default and restricts access to cfm files in the FCKeditor filemanager directory. The fix can be applied using the ColdFusion Administrator.

Source: http://www.searchsecurity.com
http://www.video-to-flash.com

NY rep. stands by Michael Jackson 'pervert' video

2009-07-08T22:57:00.000-07:00

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York congressman who posted a YouTube video blasting Michael Jackson as a "pervert" and child molester is standing by his words.
In an interview that aired Wednesday on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor," Rep. Peter King denied that there was anything racist in his remarks.
The Long Island Republican told host Bill O'Reilly that he "was saying what millions of Americans really felt."
In a 2003 documentary, Jackson admitted to letting children sleep with him in his bed at his California home but said it wasn't sexual. In 2005, a jury acquitted Jackson of charges that he molested a 13-year-old cancer survivor.
King is among the possible Republican contenders for the seat held by Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
YouTube needs to convert your video to Flash first.

Source: google news.

Adobe's Flash to ship on new Android phone

2009-07-08T01:55:00.001-07:00

Marking a departure from the world of iPhone, HTC's new Android-based Hero phone will also come with the ability to handle Flash elements that adorn many Web sites and power YouTube video.

Adobe Systems announced on Wednesday that its Flash Player will be built into the HTC phone, an important step in the company's efforts to spread Flash to mobile phones. The phone, one of several from HTC to use Google's open-source operating system, is scheduled to ship in Europe starting in July and in Asia and North America later in the year.

However, the initial version won't match Flash Player 10, the current version for PCs, which can run programs written with ActionScript 3. Instead, the Android version will handle ActionScript 2 applications written for Flash Player 9 chores, Adobe said. HTC is participating in the Open Screen Project to bring Flash Player 10 to mobile phones through over-the-air updates, though, so Adobe expects fuller Flash support eventually.

"Flash Player 10 for mobile platforms that include Android is expected to be available in the first half of 2010. We are working on delivering a beta of Flash Player 10 in the fourth quarter of 2009," the company said in a statement.

The Flash support will be built into the phone and not available as a download for other Android phone users, Adobe said.

Just having a check mark in a feature list isn't enough to outflank a competitor, but Flash is a significant feature on the Web. It powers many games, streaming videos, and dynamic stock charts, and other elaborate features on Web pages. And Flash is also used for many more dynamic advertisements.

Adobe demonstrated Flash on Android in an online video Wednesday, showing off the technology for watching a trailer at Yahoo Movies, playing the Penguin Swing game, and selecting a region on travel site Expedia. Double-clicking on the Flash element on the Web page runs it full screen.

Apple's iPhone doesn't run Flash, though Adobe would like to see it there and has been developing a version.

"We are developing Flash player for the iPhone. To release software on the iPhone requires Apple's agreement. We have to make it work great, and need to get their agreement to have it released," said Adobe chief technology officer Kevin Lynch in a 2008 interview. "We would love to see Flash on the iPhone."

After this people will not have to convert video to MP4, they need to convert video to Flash now.

How to get avi movies from pirates bay to play in my blackberry?

2009-07-07T04:27:00.000-07:00

Can you download a codec into the blackberry (how)? Or do you really have to convert every AVI to Flash or to other formats through a long process?

This post borders on the illegal so I am going to assume the files you are downloading are legal trailers, not that it make a difference but it satisfies the not illegal rules of these boards.

First step is to make sure you have the proper codecs installed on your machine. You should be able to view the video with no problems on the machine that will do the conversion. If you cannot see the movie, you cannot convert it.

After you have those files you grab super. It’s free and it does the job well. The link is below. It’s pretty easy to use, find the file set the options and click convert.

These are the optimal settings for your video:
Output Format – MPEG4
Video Size – 320×240 or 240×260 for the BlackBerry 8100 Pearl
Video Bitrate – 400K
Audio Codec – MP3
Audio Bitrate – 48K at 22khz or 44khz (Personally 22Khz works fine)
Video Frame Rate – 30fps works fine but 24fps seems to be faster

Copy the file to your media card using BB Desktop Manager media app or enabling mass storage device on the unit and copying it to the mounted drive.

What File Format do you need to upload your video to YouTube, SWF, or FLV?

2009-07-06T02:08:00.000-07:00

What file format do you need to upload your video to YouTube, S.W.F. or F.L.V, file format,
SWF…?

Whats the maximum video length…?

How many frames per second are best, what’s the minimus fps, you can set it too in Camtasia Studio 4…?

YouTube accepts a wide range of video file formats such as .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, FLV and .MPG transferred from most digital cameras, camcorders, and cell phones. For more info, u can check on google.
However, Youtube does not accept SWF file. If u want to upload SWF file to youtube, I think you have to use some swf to video converter to convert swf to avi, mpeg, mov, flv, etc video format, and then upload them to youtube.

But if you upload a regular video to YouTube sometime it will failure or take a long time. So normally I use Flash Video MX Pro to convert video to FLV and upload FLV directly. You can get this software here .

And you will find it is really a funny software, it also can convert FLV to SWF .

How do you make a flash video player with playlist support?

2009-07-05T06:45:00.001-07:00

I am making a website and would like to know how to make a flash video player. I would like it to not copy information onto the viewers computer and have support to play multiple videos. I know I can do that with Flash 8 or above version but it is expensive and difficult to use.

So as usual I went to the Yahoo. And I find that speaking as a web developer, it's a waste of time to rewrite something that's already been written (in this case several times over). Try Flowplayer... it's simple to install, highly customizable, and free. It also support playlists for both music and video files.

http://flowplayer.org/

Or as I mentioned on my later post, I can use Flash Video MX Pro to convert video to flash and add a player on the video.

How do I create a video in macromedia flash 8?

2009-07-05T06:44:00.000-07:00

I met a problem yesterday, after I have exported the flash and tryed a few other things but the flash want work on a website when it is published :(

So I went to google, and searched the solution. The following one helps me.

“When you have your file open, click: File, export, Export movie, and then in the "save as type" box select a movie format(.avi,.mov, or .gif). A great resource for flash problems is: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/”

Or I also find that I can just convert video to flash and upload to website instead of make one. That is easier. I find Moyea Flash Video MX Pro can help me to do that but it is not a free software. You know as a poor student I have to try another way, but unforturnitly I can not find a free software to do that, so I have to use the trail version of Flash Video MX Pro. And you know, with the logo of Moyea company.

What is a good and easy program to make flash videos?

2009-07-03T00:05:00.001-07:00

We all know that we need a software to make Flash video, but Adobe's program is too dear and sometime we do not need such many functions. So if you want a good video to flash editor and encoder.

I think Moyea Flash Video MX Pro is perfect for you.
First, it can help you to edit your file. You can use it to trim your file, add watermark, add cuepoint, replace the source audio etc.

Second, it can help you to convert your video and DVD directly to FLV format. As we know Youtube like FLV files most. So if you video is regular format, youtube have to convert it on its server and sometimes it fails. So I suggest you to convert it to FLV format before you upload it and upload the flv directly.

Third, it also can insert FLV files directly. So if you already have a FLV file, you also can use it.

Or here are some other options

vixy.net/ - This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube's videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online.

Check at download.com - download.com

Or just get yourself Macromedia Flash CS 4

Which is the best and cost effective solution for live video streaming and web casting?

2009-07-02T00:35:00.000-07:00

A few days ago, my friend asked one question: “which is the best and most cost effective solution for live video streaming and webcasting on a website?”

So I searched this problem on google. There are some tools will be helpful:

1. A server-based video to flash video converter engine, like Adobe® Flash® Media Interactive Server 3, Flash Video MX SDK or other solutions to accomplish the same end goal.

2. A flash video player maker, like Moyea Web Player Pro, which can create a web page embedded with a web video (flash video) player with scrollable thumbnail playlist and skinnable control bar, you can add as many videos to the playlist of the player as you like. Or if you think it is too complicate you also can use Moyea Flash Video MX Pro to add a player on your video.

3. Database system, like MySQL, ORACLE or MSSQL...

web design and programming development tools, like Dreamweaver, Firework, Flash, PHP...

4. Broadcaster StudioPRO enables you to broadcast video files, desktop activity or streaming video via your webcam. The program acts as a virtual camera drive, and you can configure any webcam application (e.g Yahoo Messenger, Live Messenger, Skype etc.) to use the Broadcaster driver instead of your regular camera. Broadcaster will then act as a proxy between your webcam and the application, allowing you to switch between live webcam capture and broadcasting of saved files, or even desktop activity. In addition, the program also enables you to broadcast to multiple applications, allowing you to use your webcam with more than one messenger application at the same time. Broadcaster StudioPRO can also be used to record video playback from other media players or web browsers by placing the recording frame over the video area and recording it. The video can then be saved as MPEG, MP4, AVI or VOB file. The program offers some unique features, we particularly liked the ability to send desktop activity via Live Messenger (or other applications). The lack of detailed documentation however will make it difficult to use for novice users.

Why can't I post a video on youtube?

2009-07-01T01:36:00.000-07:00

Yesterday my brother meet some problem when he post a video on YouTube, but for some reason he keep on getting “Upload failed (unable to convert video file)”
He asked me what does that mean. Well I think there are many reasons can cause it.

First of all let us know some common sense: YouTube likes FLV video most, so before you upload them please make sure your video is compatible with YouTube, otherwise youtube will convert the video on its sever, this process will take a long long time and some time it fails (because of the file is too big or Youtube can not recognize the file’s format or something else.)

I suggest him to convert video to Flash on his computer before he uploads it, it would be much faster.
I ask him to try Moyea Flash Video MX because it can convert nearly every video format and DVD directly to FLV.
More details can be found:
http://www.video-to-flash.com/video_to_flash/

Are there any health risks in drinking to much lime juice?

2009-06-04T23:49:00.000-07:00

Q: I know there are many benefits in drinking lime juice, but does drinking to much of it have any health risks?

A: Yes. Anything acidic can cause enamel erosion of teeth. After drinking your juice you should rinse your teeth and gums with water. You can end up with a very sore behind from all the acid in the lime (think about elimination!). But what exactly do you mean by "too many"? Are you ingesting 2-5 pounds daily? I would think if you just had 1-2 drinks a day of lime juice that this would be okay. The vitamin C is excellent for you. Listen to your body; it will usually let you know when you've had enough.

What do you think of Chavez saying that Obama is to the left of him and Fidel with the Nationalization of GM?

2009-06-03T20:12:00.000-07:00

Q: What do you think of Chavez saying that Obama is to the left of him and Fidel with the Nationalization of GM?
Here is the article: http://www.reuters.com/article/ObamaEconomy/idUSTRE5520GX20090603?feedType=RSS&feedName=ObamaEconomy&virtualBrandChannel=10441

A: This is the first thing that Hugo Chevez has ever said, that I agree with. Obama is a Marxist, and in this country we tar and feather Marxists!

Never, in the history of this nation, has it found itself at the mercy of one very destructive man. A man with an agenda to embolden his Muslim brotherhood. The same brotherhood that started this nation on a path of self destruction on 9/11. Next with the acceptance of this individual as its president.

We need to find a solution to this problem, and four years of this will be too little, too late. We need some ideas folks!

What is the Best Forex Broker Offer Automated Forex Trading System?

2009-06-02T19:49:00.000-07:00

Q: I am new to forex and have only just found out about all these automated forex robots and such that are supposed to really take a lot of the risk out of forex trading. I need a real working automated forex robots, automated forex system that really works. Can anyone suggest a good one?
A: You can get the Leading Automated Forex Trading System Here for Free:
http://www.ava-fx.com/
Avafx has a forex auto trading service called Avafx Auto Trader, a platform that allows its forex brokerage clients to choose from various trading signals providers and have those signals traded automatically in their live trading account. With a free 30-day demo, decent web-based platform and comprehensive signals performance, the Avafx Auto Trader is a very good broker-based service to look at when comparing auto trading providers. This service does come highly recommended for traders looking to add auto trading to their forex portfolio.

Firstly, the Avafx Auto Trader platform is fairly easy to navigate and start up its 30-day demo. The demo allots an account of $100,000 to trade with. Avafx allows trading on 23 different currency pairs. The performance page is very comprehensive to compare and choose from the hundreds of expert trading signal providers: you can filter the trade signal providers by profit ($), max draw down, profit factor; date started, average pip profit, winning percentage, and currency pair. You can also set your maximum number of trades that you wish to be open for your trading account, your lot sizes per signal provider, or maximum stop losses per trade provider. Right away you can pick up to 10 different signal providers, choose pairs and lot sizes, and have the platform take over from there, automatically trading your account with your selected trading signals. Your computer does not need to be on for the signals to be traded in your account, as this service uses a remote server.

Now, to go live with a live auto traded accounts there are a few rules. Your trading account minimum investment is $1000. Also, Avafx charges you 1 pip commission on each round trip trade on top of their normal spread to use their autotrade system. Seem unfair? Not really. Comparing ZuluTrade to Avafx Auto Trader, Avafx actually comes out on top. Yes, ZuluTrade does not charge a commission, however comparing the best signal providers; Avafx appears to have the best performing signals. Avafx’s performance comparison is actually much more user-friendly than ZuluTrade’s performance page: you can quickly compare important trading system factors like risk adjustment rate (RAR) and profit factor which cannot even be determined on ZuluTrade. Both do provide maximum drawdown for each signal provider, which is one of the most important. But when looking at the RAR, total pips accumulated divided by max draw down, the Avafx providers have a much better RAR than the ZuluTrade signals providers. Is that worth the 1 pip commission per trade? Absolutely. Now, if your trading account is $50,000 or more, you are then a VIP level account which means you will not be charged the 1 pip commission and you will get a better deal on the spreads as well. Another thing to note: Avafx is an approved broker for ZuluTrade. So, if you try out Avafx Auto Trader signals and are not impressed, then it will be very easy to set up a ZuluTrade account using Avafx as your broker.

On the negative side, the Help section and Support Center are not very helpful regarding the Auto Trader. However, the Live chat help was very responsive and they answered most of my questions quickly. There was one question that remains with Auto Trader: there is a very large disclaimer at the bottom of the trading platform about “Hypothetical trading results and performance data”. It is unclear if Avafx Auto Trader signals providers are using live trading accounts or DEMO accounts for their trading performance data. I would think that DEMO trading is likely to be less accurate than live trading performance data. Avafx support did not answer this question directly. Also the Avafx Auto Trader does not have the Margin-call-ometer that ZuluTrade does, which is a very nice feature that explains and guards against account margin calls. However, Avafx’s platform does have some decent features to help clients remain positive and not margin call their accounts.

In writing this review, only a demo account was used to try out the system and platform. Avafx insists that the platform and service are identical whether trading demo or live with them.

Overall the Avafx Auto Trader receives 4 stars and comes highly recommended.

What's a synonym of "opposer"?

2009-06-01T23:03:00.000-07:00

Q: I don't even think opposer is a word but I need "Maggie Gallagher, a gay marraige _____________, believes that...etc."

A: opponent

"Maggie Gallager, who opposes gay marriage, believes that ....."

"Maggie Gallager, an opponent of gay marriage, believes that . . . "

"Maggie Gallager, a gay marriage opponent, believes that . .

What causes dandruff?

2009-05-31T19:05:00.000-07:00

Q: What causes dandruff?

A: The condition of your hair is a reflection of your body's general health. Its condition changes for the worse with stress, nutritional deficiencies, hormone shifts, and environmental factors. The real culprit when it comes to dandruff may be a fat-eating, yeast-like fungus called molasses, formerly known as pityro sporum.

Molasses lives on the scalps of most healthy adults without causing problems. But sometimes it grows out of control, feeding on the oils secreted by your hair follicles and causing irritation that leads to increased cell turnover.

All skin cells die and are replaced by new cells. Normally, it takes about a month for new cells to move from the lowest layer of your skin, where they form, to the outermost layer, where they die and scale off in flakes. Because cells renew themselves slowly, this process usually isn't noticeable.

But on scalps where malassezia thrives, the whole process can take as little as 11 days. The result is a large number of dead skin cells. As the cells fall off, they tend to clump together with oil from your hair and scalp, making them appear white, flaky and all too visible.

Mayo Clinic's recommendations for dandruff self-care are:
Learn to manage stress.
Shampoo often.
Cut back on styling products.
Eat a healthy diet.
Get a little sun.

How can i quickly make water safe for fish without a dechlorinator?

2009-05-07T19:37:00.000-07:00

Q: I got a goldfish from a fair. I have a fishbowl but i cant get to a pet store any time soon to buy dechlorinator. If i boil water for 10 minutes and cool it to room temp will it be safe for my fish?

A: It depends on what your water source is and how it is treated to make it safe to drink. If you are on well water, you're possibly good to go as is. If you are on city water, you may be in for some trouble. The old method was to "age" water, you let it set for at least 24 hours and the chlorine would evaporate out. Now though, many places use chloramines instead of or in addition to chlorine, and it HAS to be chemically deactivated.
Distilled is not a good choice, as it can cause something called osmotic shock, which can kill your fish. If you absolutely have to use distilled water, change only half the water. It will still shock your fish some, but it's better than the ammonia buildup.
If you want your Goldie to live a long healthy life, it will need an absolute minimum 10 gallon tank if it is a fancy type, 20 if it's a common (they get bigger).

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How do I respond?

2009-05-06T22:00:00.000-07:00

Q: I made a video for All American Rejects' Gives You Hell Video Contest and uploaded it as a video response as instructed. Now, months later, YouTube is sending me a copyright warning, even though I clearly had permission to upload it, along with the other 96 fans who had permission to upload theirs. How do I respond to this?

A: Aruna:

We need to cover a few issues.

A. Is the video content yours? As in, did you shoot the video on your own camera and edit the video yourself?

B. You used the song "Gives You Hell," only, and no other audio? Or did you include other audio elements?

C. Did you post the video as a RESPONSE to the original AAR video on YouTube? (That is a requirement from Interscope Records.. see http://www.video-to-flash.com/flv_video_converter/ your video must be a RESPONSE to that video.)

IF your video content is original. And IF the only audio in the clip is the AAR song. And IF you uploaded your video as a "response" to the video above, you should respond as such to YouTube.

Generally speaking, YouTube only issues copyright violation notifications if a copyright holder notifies them first.

In other words, Interscope Records likely initiated the complaint against you.

Let me know if you need more help.

How to convert WMM videos to a format YouTube will accept?

2009-05-05T19:10:00.000-07:00

Q: So, I made a bunch of videos on windows movie maker, and youtube is saying "Failed (unable to convert video file)". How can I convert it (for free, please) to something that will work?

A: YouTube likes FLV video most, so before you upload them please make sure your video is compatible with YouTube, otherwise youtube will convert the video on its sever, this process will take a long long time.
I suggest you to convert your video on your computer before you upload them, it would be much faster.
You can try Moyea Flash Video MX, it can convert nearly every video format and DVD directly to FLV.
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Is it still littering if it's biodegradable?

2009-05-04T19:07:00.000-07:00

Q: Is it okay to throw like an apple core on the ground, for example?

A1 : Yes it is littering, even if you are out in the woods and you know it will be eaten by animals. You would be providing a food that isn't part of the animals natural diet and unless you are a stickler about organic, you would be dosing the animal with pesticides.

In a populated area you are providing food for rats and other undesirable creatures. There populations are controlled by the amount of food available.

A2 : It's still littering (putting something on the ground in a public space!), but I never feel guilty about throwing things like orange peels or apple cores on the ground if there's no garbage to hand and I don't have a convenient place to store it until I get to one. Things like biodegradable bags or cardboard or whatnot are a different story- they take way longer to decompose, and belong someplace where they can do that without marring the scenery.

A3 : It is still littering, by law but it will help the environment... unless it gets in the ocean and small animals try to eat it and it gets caught in their system.
Instead of doing that you could wait to take it home and even better than throwing it in the garbage: Composting! For vermicomposting: You just have to get a large bin and soil. Then put in some Red Wiggler or Indian Blue worms. Throw all of your vegetable and fruit peelings and leftovers in there, eventually the worms will eat it an poop. The poop is called vermicast and it is rich, nutrient full soil.

A4 : I would say that this is still littering in its technical defition. However, if you want to throw an apple core on the ground, you can do so in your front or backyard. But in public spaces, i wouldn't. Although I see what you mean, just because feces are good for the Earth doesn't mean that we leave it lying around!! (Sorry that was the only example i could come up with=P)

I would also say that instead of throwing it on the ground, you can speed up the process by composting it. So instead of throwing a biodegradable object on the ground, go compost it!!

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How long will it take to upload video to YouTube?

2009-05-03T23:59:00.000-07:00

Q: I have a WMV file but when I upload it onto YouTube, it takes me nearly 1 hour. Why?

A: YouTube likes FLV video most, so before you upload them please make sure your video is compatible with YouTube, otherwise youtube will convert the video on its sever, this process will take a long long time.

I suggest you to convert your video on your computer before you upload them, it would be much faster.

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How can i upload a video from my camera to my ipod touch?

2009-04-29T22:18:00.000-07:00

Q: I have made a video on my camera. can i upload that to my ipod touch?

A: I know one online downloader and converter. It is easy to use and it is free.
http://www.convertdirect.com/

If you only want to download the Youtube video,
1, Just insert the video’s URL
2, in the “Download the online video directly” section, press Download.

If you want to download the video and convert it to other format,
1, Insert the video’s URL, switch to “Convert the online video” section.
2, Select the output format (AVi, MP4, 3GP, WMV etc.), and if you only want the audio you can choose “MP3 (Audio only)”
3, Enter your Email address to receive the converted file.

If you don't mind a trial and watermark, try this one. There is no time or size limit.
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What good rock songs should I add onto my iPod?

2009-04-28T22:39:00.000-07:00

Q: I like rock (classic and alternative, not so much metal) indie, punk, ska, synth, and anything else. Very much appreciated!

A: The Academy Is... - About a Girl
Aerosmith - Angel, Jaded, What It Takes, Love in an Elevator, Sweet Emotion, Crazy, Amazing, Don't Wanna Miss a Thing
Alice in Chains - Man in the Box, Would?, Heaven Beside You
Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal
All American Rejects - Move Along, It Ends Tonight, Swing Swing, Dirty Little Secrets
American Hi-Fi - Flavor of the Week
Audioslave - Like A Stone

Beck - Loser
Better Than Ezra - Desperately Wanting, At The Stars, Good
The Black Crows - Hard To Handle, Twice as Hard
Blink 182 - First Date, I Miss You, All The Small Things, Down
Blur - Song 2
Breaking Benjamin - Forget It, So Cold, Firefly, Rain
Buckcherry - Sorry
Bush - The Chemical Between Us, Machinehead, Everything Zen, Glycerine, Little Things, Comedown
Butthole Surfers - Pepper

Cake - Going The Distance, I Will Survive, Never There
Candlebox - Far Behind
Chad Kroeger & Santana - Why Don't You And I
Chevelle - Vitamin R (Leading Us Along), The Red, Send The Pain Below
Cold - End of the World, Suffocate, Stupid Girl
Collective Soul - Energy, World I Know, December, Heavy, Shine
Creed - Energy, The World I Know, Heavy, Shine, December, My Own Prison, My Sacrifice, Higher, With Arms Wide Open, One
Crazy Town - Butterfly
Crossfade - Cold

Days of the New - Touch, Peel & Stand
Default - Wasting My Time, It Only Hurts, Deny, Taking My Life Away
Disturbed - Land of Confusion, Down With The Sickness

Eve 6 - Inside Out, Here's To The Night

Faith No More - Epic
Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Going Down Swinging, I Don't Care, Thanks For The Memories, Dead on Arrival
Filter - Take My Picture, Captain Bligh, The Best Things
Finger Eleven - Paralyzer, One Thing
Flyleaf - I'm So Sick
The Flys - Got You (Where I Want You)
Foo Fighters - Walking After You, My Hero, Big Me, Everlong, The Best of You, Learn to Fly
Fuel - Bad Day, Bittersweet, Hemorrhage (In My Hands), Falls On Me, Shimmer

Garbage - Stupid Girl, Special
Godsmack - Whatever, Voodoo, Greed, Serenity, Keep Away
Green Day - Basket Case, Wake Me Up When September Ends, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Time of Your Life, American Idiot

Hinder - Bliss (I Don't Wanna Know), Better Than Me, Without You
Hoobastank - The Reason, Crawling in the Dark, Running Away

Incubus - Drive, Pardon Me

Jane's Addiction - Jane Says, Been Caught Stealing
Jimmy Eat World - Pain, The Middle, Sweetness

Lacuna Coil - Fragile, To The Edge, Enjoy The Silence, Our Truth
Lifehouse - First Time, You & Me, Broken, Hanging By A Moment
Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away, I Belong to You, Believe
Linkin Park - Crawling, Shadow of the Day, Runaway, In The End, Somewhere I Belong, My December, Faint, No More Sorrow

Marcy Playground - Sex & Candy, St. Joe on the School Bus
Metro Station - Shake It, 17 Forever

New Found Glory - It's Not Your Fault, Dressed to Kill, Sonny
Nickelback - Savin' Me, Far Away, Animals, If Everyone Cared, Figured You Out, Too Bad, Someday, Photograph, Gotta Be Somebody, Hero, How You Remind Me, Into The Night
Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds
Nirvana - Come As You Are, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Heart Shaped Box, In Bloom, Lithium, Polly, All Apologies, About a Girl

Oasis - Wonderwall, Champagne Supernova, Acquiese
The Offspring - Keep'em Separated, The Kids Aren't Alright
Oleander - Why I'm Here, I Walk Alone

Papa Roach - Getting Away With Murder, Scars, She Loves Me Not, Broken Home
Paramore - That's What You Get, Decode,
Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter, Alive, Black, Even Flow, Better Man, Garden, Daughter, Jeremy
P.O.D. - Alive, Youth of the Nation
Prong - Rude Awakening
Puddle of Mudd - Control, Blurry, She Hates Me

Queensryche - Silent Lucidity

Radiohead - Creep
Red - Already Over, Breathe In To Me
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way, Otherside, Higher Ground, Californication, Dani California, Snow (Hey Oh), Under The Bridge, The Zephyr Song

Saliva - Always
Scars of Life - Watch Me Drown
Seether - Fine Again, The Remedy, Gasoline
Seven Mary Three - Cumbersome
Sevendust - Broken Down, Enemy
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979, Today, Tonight Tonight
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun, Burden in My Hand, My Wave, Fell On Black Days, Outshined, Spoonman
Sponge - Plowed (this was played in the movie, Empire Records with Liv Tyler)
Staind - Epiphany, For You, Outside, Fade, So Far Away, It's Been Awhile, Right Here Waiting
Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing, Creep, Plush, Vasoline, Big Bang Baby, Wicked Garden, Big Empty, Creep, Interstate Love Song, Sour Girl, Trippin' On A Hole in a Paper Heart
Switchfoot - Meant
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How Many Hours does the Lenovo s10 have?

2009-04-27T20:08:00.000-07:00

Q: How many hours do you get out of a 3 cell battery? And out of a 6 cell battery? Which do you think is better?

A: The 6 cell battery will provide you with a much longer charge. But depending on what the computer has in it such as the video card and how much power it uses determines how long it will last. The average time is about 2 hours in power save mode.
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How can i get my videos from iphoto into imovie?

2009-04-27T19:52:00.000-07:00

Q: I uploaded videos from my camera. They automatically went into iphoto. I tried converting the format to one compatible with imovie and it didnt work. im going insaneeeeeee. help???

A: Try this free, open source, highly regarded in the Apple community software. It is available for download from the site below or from the Apple software download site. It's only a very small file.
Once you have it downloaded, installed and open, just drag your video files in.
Then go to File > Export to QuickTime. Select the Apple Intermediate Codec.
Choose a folder/desktop location and once it's done, open iMovie and import it in.
You can also use it to convert YouTube or almost any format.
Regards, Zyfert

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How do I know how many volts my socket will support? 10 pts!!?

2009-04-26T22:33:00.000-07:00

Q: I am hopelessly trying to get my wall a/c situation correct, and I am just wondering if there is a way to tell the different between a 110v and a 220v socket (or whatever the 2 standard voltages are...)

I will surely award 10 points to the best answer, and check back to see if I need to provide you with additional information!!!

A: 110 and 220 plugs are different. And its amps when talking about load and ac units. Most 5000-12000 btu will run on a 110 outlet with a 20amp breaker. Bigger units usually need 220 and it should be stamped on the unit on a panel or near where the wire comes out of the unit. 220 plugs are on your dryer and stove if they are electric for comparison.

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To kill a mockingbird ch. 19 and 20 help?

2009-04-26T22:21:00.000-07:00

Q: I need help in this questions. I cant seem to find them. Thanks for your help

Chapters Nineteen and Twenty
1) According to Tom, where had Mayella's brothers and sisters gone on the evening in
question?
2) Identify what Tom says Mayella did to him (a) while he was standing on the chair; (b) after he
got off the chair; and (c) afterward.
3) When Atticus asks Tom why he ran, what is his reply?
4) What mistake does Tom make when Mr. Gilmer is asking him to explain why he helped
Mayella?
Page 3
5) What explanation does Dill give Scout for his becoming sick?
6) How does Mr. Raymond explain his pretense about drinking?
7) When Scout and Dill return to the courtroom, what prediction does Jem make?
8) What, according to Atticus, is the one thing in the country that truly makes everyone equal?
9) Tom, stating that he felt sorry for Mayella Ewell, realizes he had made a mistake in doing so.
Scout comments that none of the spectators like his answer. Why was the statement a
mistake? Why did the spectators dislike it?
10) Scout accuses Mr. Raymond of being dishonest by pretending to drink when he doesn't. His
response is that it isn't honest but "it's mighty helpful to folks." Comment on both point of
views.
11) Mr. Raymond tells Scout that when Dill grows up, "he won't cry about the simple hell people
give other people - even without thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks
without even stopping to think that they're people too." What is Mr. Raymond implying about
the differences between children and adults? Why does a child cry about an obvious injustice
that an adult can ignore?

A:

How do I upload a complete movie onto YouTube? I need to upload them into 10 minutes segments but how to?

2009-04-23T20:24:00.000-07:00

Q：I've seen others upload their complete movies in 10 minutes segments example : part 1 to part 7 of the movie. I want to know how to do that. Please give me a step by step instructions. Thanks.

A: Just figure ur time out that the movie is and use a movie editing program to make 10 min segments..... How do I edit my video?

Most computers come with some sort of video editing application already installed, such as Apple iMovie or Microsoft Movie Maker. Using these programs, you can easily edit your videos, add soundtracks, change the file type, compress the file size, etc.

There are also more advanced editing programs available for purchase or download online. We encourage you to look around and find the editing software that's right for you.....Youll have to read the help file in whatever program ya choose to use to find out how to do it....Once you break((EDIT)) the movie up into 10 min or less segments you just title each segment ((Example: Hercules and the fire god Part-1 and the next one in order of the film the same way only instead of part-1 ya put Part-2 and so on )) then up-load each to youtube.....OR you can read this....READ THE DESCRIPITON! -if you have a windows movie maker file (and if you know how to use windows movie maker) and cannot upload the video then read this it should be saved as a .wmv file then go to this url: If you have windows XP watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kRHP8... If you have windows vista then watch this video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=5OlYRFGamFQ it should teach you how to make a windows movie maker project ( a .mswmmm) file into a .wmv file.

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How to convert AVI to F4V to upload on your website

2009-04-22T19:22:00.000-07:00

AVI is one of the most popular regular formats. F4V is the streaming media format created by Adobe Company in order to meet the high-definition era following the FLV format, which supports the H.264 format. As a web designer you must have many AVI videos and wants to convert these AVI to F4V video, so you can upload them on your website to share with your clients.

This article will tell you how to convert AVI to F4V with Flash Video MX Pro.

Moyea Flash Video MX Pro is one of the best flash video encoder software, which could easily convert video to Flash, FLV encoded by Flash 8 with alpha, F4V, AVC/H.264, Flash 8, and Sorenson Spark video codecs, together with dynamic video compression and audio settings! After you download and install it you can see the main interface like this:

Step1. Import video
Import your .avi file and you can see it in the preview panel.

Here you can trim and crop your video, add watermark on your video, set brightness and contrast, even capture a snapshot of your video.

See the above picture, in Snapshot section click Capture button then you can get a screenshot of your video. And if you want to make the screenshot show as the first frame just choose Generate a picture as the first frame.

Step2. Output settings
In this section, you can choose the output folder and output formats.

As you see, in Video codec section you can encode your video as F4V, Flash 8, Flash 8 with alpha or H.264. And if you choose F4V, you can generate a SWF file and a HTML file.
Step3. Add player and preloader

As you see in above picture, you can add a player skin and preloader on your video and with beautiful special effects.

Step4. Convert
In the final interface, just press the Start and wait a few minutes you can get your F4V file.

Why do onions make you cry?

2009-04-21T20:21:00.000-07:00

Q: Why do onions make you cry?
A: It is not the strong odor of the onion that makes us cry, but the gas that the onion releases when we sever this member of the lily family.

The onion itself contains oil, which contains sulfur, an irritant to both our noses and to our eyes. Cutting an onion arouses a gas contained within the onion, propanethiol S-oxide, which then couples with the enzymes in the onion to emit a passive sulfur compound. When this upwardly mobile gas encounters the water produced by the tear ducts in our eyelids, it produces sulfuric acid.

In response to the caustic acid, our eyes automatically blink, and produce tears which irrigate the eye, and which flush out the sulfuric acid.

Another reflex to rid the eyes of a foreign substance, that of rubbing our eyes with our hands, often exacerbates the situation, because our hands are coated with the caustic, sulfuric acid producing oil from cutting the onion, which we then rub directly into our eyes.

Much to our chagrin, the only remedy for ridding the onion of its pungent, irritating oil is to boil it, not to slice it or dice it.

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How can I download youtube videos right to my PSP?

2009-04-20T18:59:00.001-07:00

Q: I have WI-FI so if im on my psp and I want 2 see a youtube video on it (download it 2 my psp) how do I do it? (For free) I could really use some1s help.

A: You can try this online downloader and converter. It is free.
http://www.convertdirect.com/

Just insert the URL, select the right output format (MP3 or MP4), and press "convert". The video will be saved to your computer hard drive automatically. Then sync the converted file to your Ipod with Itunes.

If you don't mind a trial, try this one. There is no time or size limit.
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Tips for having a 70's party?

2009-04-19T20:23:00.000-07:00

Q: I’m turning 14 in 3 months and i just need some good tips as far as decorations and stuff to do for a small group.

A: The early '70s perpetuated the lazy-daisy attitudes that blossomed in the '60s, while the latter part of the decade celebrated glittering disco clubs and tight leisure suits. Politics, anti-war sentiments and the continued persistence of the peace sign signified the '70s.

Decorate in '70s-inspired earth tones colors such as orange, yellow, brown and definitely the ever-addictive split-pea-green. Hang beaded curtains to add a little extra color and flair. Also be sure to have plenty of incense burning to really create a '70s atmosphere (something earthy like sandalwood or patchouli will make it feel authentic). As homage to the advent of the disco era, set up a rotating mirror ball that instantly turns any party into a dance party. Luckily, tabletop mirror balls are easy to find, so you won’t have to worry about installing it into your ceiling.

-orange fizz drinks
-disco balls
-strobe lights
-peace signs
-lava lamps
-flower garlands
-poodle skirts
-afros
-bell bottoms

-colorful streamers and balloons
-fairy cake
-posters
-beaded curtains
-blow up chairs
-tie die!
HOPE I HELPED GIRL:)

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What is the best format for my hd videos to be able to post on youtube?

2009-04-16T19:49:00.000-07:00

Q: I have a new sony handycam that takes 1080 video and I need to find the best format to shrink it into so that I can load them onto youtube because they are too large right now. Which file type (avi, divx, mpeg-1,2,4, windowsmedia, etc) and preset that corresponds. I am using pinnacle studio plus to make the files.

A: HI，I think you could try Moyea YouTube Converter, which is not just a converting tool, and it is also a YouTube downloader for you to fast download and convert YouTube videos to various video formats with high quality. The Converter is professional powerful YouTube Converter software to convert both newly downloaded YouTube videos and FLV videos from your computer into AVI, XVID, DIVX, DV, MP4, MOV, WMV, 3GP, 3G2, VOB, MPG, FLV, MP3, AAC, M4A, WMA, WAV, AC3 format. It could run in windows vista comfortable. With this tool you can get the youtube video by 5 ways below:
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5. Use the “GetIt” Plug-in on IE
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How can I download videos from youtube?

2009-04-15T18:45:00.000-07:00

Q: I want to rip videos off youtube and don't know how to?

A: YOUTUBE TOOLS

Moyea Youtube FLV Downloader
http://www.video-to-flash.com/download-flv/

23 Ways to Download YouTube Videos

Web based

1. YouTubeX doesn’t have a lot of options, but it’s simple, and it works. It also enables you to share the YouTube video with your friends via e-mail. Unfortunately, all the files are called get_video, and you have to add the .flv extension manually.

http://www.youtubex.com

2. KeepVid is another simple site. No hassle, works not only for YouTube movies but for a number of other sites, including Google Video, MySpace Video, DailyMotion and others. Again, you have to add the .flv extension by hand.

http://www.keepvid.com

3. VideoDownloader is very similar to KeepVid, but supports even more video sharing sites, and it’s also available as a Firefox extension. Just like with KeepVid, all downloads are in .flv format. We recommend MediaCoder for free conversion.

http://www.video-to-flash.com//dvd_to_flash/

4. YouTube Downloads takes the cake in the longest domain name contest. It also separates itself by using a proxy for downloading videos, which means that you might be able to get videos even if YouTube access is blocked at your workplace or in the country you live. Just search Google for YouTube videos, and copy/paste the URL into YouTube Downloads.

http://www.video-to-flash.com/dvd_to_flash_converter/

5. Zamzar is an online file format conversion site which can do a lot more than just converting YouTube videos to another format and downloading them to your hard drive, but it’s doing a great job so we had to include it here. Thoroughly tested by us and highly recommended. See the video of it in action here.

http://www.zamzar.com

6. YouTubia separates itself from the crowd by enabling you to search as well as download YouTube files. Options are scarce, but it works.

http://www.youtubia.com

How can I download videos from youtube?

2009-04-14T18:36:00.000-07:00

Q: I want to rip videos off youtube and don't know how to?

A: YOUTUBE TOOLS

Youtube Batch Downloader 1.2
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_5_2...

http://www.video-to-flash.com//dvd_to_flash/
23 Ways to Download YouTube Videos

Web based

1. YouTubeX doesn’t have a lot of options, but it’s simple, and it works. It also enables you to share the YouTube video with your friends via e-mail. Unfortunately, all the files are called get_video, and you have to add the .flv extension manually.

http://www.youtubex.com

http://www.video-to-flash.com/dvd_to_flash_converter/
2. KeepVid is another simple site. No hassle, works not only for YouTube movies but for a number of other sites, including Google Video, MySpace Video, DailyMotion and others. Again, you have to add the .flv extension by hand.

http://www.keepvid.com

http://www.video-to-flash.com/dvd-to-flv/
3. VideoDownloader is very similar to KeepVid, but supports even more video sharing sites, and it’s also available as a Firefox extension. Just like with KeepVid, all downloads are in .flv format. We recommend MediaCoder for free conversion.

http://www.javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en....

4. YouTube Downloads takes the cake in the longest domain name contest. It also separates itself by using a proxy for downloading videos, which means that you might be able to get videos even if YouTube access is blocked at your workplace or in the country you live. Just search Google for YouTube videos, and copy/paste the URL into YouTube Downloads.

http://www.downloadandsaveyoutubevideos....

5. Zamzar is an online file format conversion site which can do a lot more than just converting YouTube videos to another format and downloading them to your hard drive, but it’s doing a great job so we had to include it here. Thoroughly tested by us and highly recommended. See the video of it in action here.

http://www.zamzar.com

6. YouTubia separates itself from the crowd by enabling you to search as well as download YouTube files. Options are scarce, but it works.

http://www.youtubia.com

7. VidGrab is another simple site that works with YouTube, Google Video, MySpace and Break.com. Besides the download function, the site also sports a top list of most viewed videos.

http://www.vidgrab.com

8. Vixy offers both downloading videos and converting them into DivX avi, mov, mp4, 3gp, or mp3 (for audio only) formats. The conversion works well enough, but sometimes results in slightly choppy playback.

http://www.vixy.net

9. Hey! Watch is an ambitious video encoding service with a large number of options, especially when it comes to converting videos to portable media player formats (it even supports my trusty iRiver H340.) Most online video converters often produce crappy results, with video and audio being out of sync, and this problem is also present on Hey! Watch, but it happens rarely.

http://www.heywatch.com

10. Media Converter can be a little slow, but the results of the video conversion are quite good. We’ve converted some YouTube videos to avi (mpeg4 + mp3) format and it worked well. The tool is not limited to video conversion; it also supports several audio and document formats.

http://www.mediaconverter.org

11. KcoolOnline is a web-based converter which supports 98 video sharing web sites, including YouTube. It has literally zero options, so it’s recommended for those who like to keep it simple.

http://www.kcoolonline.com
Windows Applications

12. VDownloader is a desktop application that catches YouTube, Google Video, and Grinvi video links from your clipboard. Start it up, copy the video URL and click download. It automatically converts the videos to mpeg or avi formats.

http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/VD...

13. YouTube Grabber downloads files from Youtube in .flv format. Copy and paste the URL of a video from YouTube into the program, press «grab», and the file will be downloaded into the same directory as the program.

http://www.download.com/Youtube-Grabber/...

14. Orbit Downloader is a desktop application which can download videos from a wide variety of sites. The download process is very simple, just hover your mouse over the video and you’ll get a button that says «Get It». The developers of the program claim that it’s very fast (up to 500% faster, they say) due to its P2P download technology.

http://www.orbitdownloader.com

15. My Video Downloader. With all these free tools, it’s actually funny to see a commercial one. It’s called My Video Downloader, and while it does look solid and offers a lot of conversion options (a free trial which enables you to download 10 videos is available), we’re not sure it offers enough to warrant a price tag.

http://www.myvideodownloader.com

16. KeepV is a desktop downloader as well as a converter, which can convert the downloaded videos from flv to avi, mov, mp4, or 3gp formats.

http://www.keepv.com

17. VideoGet boasts being able to download video clips from more than 100 video sharing websites. We haven’t tested all of them, so we’re just going to take their word for it. It’s a deskop application with a nice, simple interface, and a solid number of options.

http://www.nuclear-coffee.com/php/produc...

18. TubeSucker is a desktop YouTube video downloader with some interesting options, including batch downloading large amounts of videos from a certain user. See the video tour on the site.

http://www.newrad.com/software/tubesucke...
OS X

19. Get Tube is an OS X application which lets you download video or audio files from YouTube, DailyMotion and Kewego.

http://www.web.mac.com/simonvrel/iWeb/so...
Linux

20. Youtube-dl. Here’s some love for Linux users. Youtube-dl is a program that lets you download YouTube clips in flv format, which both mplayer and VLC can easily chew up.

http://www.nuxified.org/blog/download_yo...

21. YouTube Ripper is not actually an application; it’s a simple script that rips all videos that match a keyword, uploaded by a specific YouTube user. We don’t really have ideas on what to use this for, but maybe you do! PHP port is also available.

nlindblad.org/2007/04/08/youtube-rippe...
Plugins

22. Vidtaker is a Firefox-only plugin that can download videos from most streaming websites: Google Video, YouTube, MySpace, as well as a number of nasty adult SomethingTube spinoffs (Pornotube, YouPorn etc). It automatically converts the video to a DivX avi.

http://www.vidtaker.com

23. Ook? Video Ook! Yes, that’s the full name of this Firefox plugin, which enables you to download videos from YouTube and several other video sharing web sites. It features one click downloading and integration with the popular DownThemAll Firefox plugin.

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon...

Axara YouTube tools - A collection of utilities for conversion of YouTube videos into a format chosen by the user. These formats are FLV, DVD, AVI, WMV, MOV, M4V, 3GP.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/...

CatchTube - A great video search engine. It has a cool link which displays ‘Most Recent videos’.
http://catchtube.com/

Delutube - A free service that provides a new way to watch deleted YouTube videos. The users have to provide the ID of the deleted video to play it.
http://youtube.infamousx.com/

Free YouTube to MP3 Converter - A software utility for downloading and converting YouTube files for iPod, Cell Phone, MP3 etc.
http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/free-dvd-vid...

Free YouTube to MP3 Converter 2.4
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_2...

fTube - fTube is a flash based YouTube player that downloads recent videos from YouTube in a list and enables users to play those videos.
http://mannu.livejournal.com/326881.html

IndexTube - A browseable categorized index of public YouTube videos.
http://www.indextube.com/Welcome

iTube - An application allowing users to grab & convert YouTube videos and import them into iTunes.
http://www.epicempire.com/software/youtu...

MemoriesOnWeb - A slideshow software for YouTube videos.
http://www.codejam.com/slideshow/mow.htm

Overstream - Overstream enables users to add subtitles to online videos.
http://www.overstream.net/

Search The Tube - A portal enabling users to search YouTube videos from websites, blogs or user profiles.
http://www.searchthetube.com/

Speedbit Video Accelerator - Speedbit Video Accelator is a download accelerator like typical download managers. Its working principle is similar to other download managers as it opens multiple connections for downloading YouTube videos.
http://www.speedbit.com/video%5Faccelera...

Tubular - Tubular is an intuitive, brand new YouTube client for OS X. Its features include one-click iPod conversion and drag-and-drop playback
http://tubularapp.com/blog/page/3/

TvTube - A Mac application making it easy to users to browse videos on YouTubue and similar video sharing sites.
http://web.mac.com/netao/TvTube_Help/Wel...

YouTube API Extraction Tool - A simple feed extraction tool that posts dynamic content from YouTube.
http://www.napolitopia.com/subpage.php?c...

YoutubeCrazyVideos - A desktop player for YouTube videos.
http://www.instaladordecontenidos.com/in...

YouTube Podcaster - A podcast feed maker enabling users to generate podcast feeds from submitted keywords or URL.
http://vixy.net/youtube_podcaster

YouTube Uploader - A desktop application for uploading videos to YouTube without using the original interface.
http://www.bestsoftware4download.com/sof...

YouTube Userscripts - A nice collection of scripts for performing multiple tasks with YouTube.
http://userscripts.org/tag/youtube

YouTube Widget - A Mac widget which allows users to search, browse and download videos from YouTube.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard...

Youtube Video Slideshow - A fast way to search for YouTube videos.
http://youtubetools.blinklist.com/open/o...

YouTube videos swicki -A YouTube videos search engine with a tag cloud dedicated to YouTube.
http://youtubevideos-swicki.eurekster.co...

TubeHunter Ultra V1.8.3 downloads video and music from 521 YouTube and Xtube kind webs, and saves them on your computer or directly to your iPOD / PSP / Zune / Phone. All downloaded videos can be converted by TubeHunter Ultra to other video formats including AVI, MPEG4, DivX, XviD, iPOD Video, iPhone format, MPEG, WMV, RM, MOV, Sony PSP, Zune Video, 3GP, 3G2, SWF, FLV, M4A, MP3, MP4, WAV, OGG, AAC and AC3. TubeHunter Ultra does not have any spyware or adware.
http://www.neoretix.com/

Search, Download, Manage, Convert, Repair and Play Youtube video files
http://www.effectmatrix.com/Youtube_vide...

Cool YouTube Downloader 1.0.245 (Freeware)
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Do...

ImTOO Download YouTube Video supports multithreading. The YouTube downloader provides several user familiar methods on downloading, especially drag-drop. It has advanced task management functions. And the independent video player will amuse you by playing the files off-line directly.
The YouTube video downloader provides the fastest speed to download YouTube videos, offers you the most convenient task management
and easiest control capability. We highly recommend this downloading tool. Free to download and use ImTOO Download YouTube Video right now!
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/...

Jax puts YouTube videos onto iPod, iPhone
[ $50 U.S. ]
http://www.joesoft.com/products/jax_feat...

KeepTube 2.0
KeepTube is tool to download, manage, and play video from YouTube. By using the unique tool, you can download multiple videos concurrently, create your favorite play list, loop play videos.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_5_2...

Biennesoft YouTube Downloader
is a simple tool to download video clips from YouTube, MySpace and Google
and convert them to iPod, PSP, Cell Phone, Windows Media, XVid or MP3. The program uses a 2-step process that first downloads the video as FLV file, which you then have to load and convert to the selected video format. The process is far from elegant, but it works. Biennesoft YouTube Downloader uses FFmpeg as engine for the video conversion.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/ytdownloade...

YouTUBE donwloader description
This application will help you download movies from YouTube fast and easy
YouTube Downloader is a free application that will download videos from YouTube and save them as Avi or Mpeg files to your computer.
YouTube Downloader allows you to easily grab and save desired youtube video.
Simply paste the URL of a video into the program, press Start, and the AVI or MPEG file will be downloaded into the selected folder.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Do...

save2pc - formerly YouTube Downloader 3.0
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download5580.h...

Youtube Grabber description
Youtube Grabber is a free tool that downloads FLV files from youtube
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Do...

Youtube is a popular free video sharing website
which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. Videos can be rated; the average rating and the number of times a video has been watched are both published.
Simply copy and paste the URL of a video from youtube into the program, press grab OR enter, and the file will be downloaded into the same directory as the program.
Download Youtube Grabber 3.1 | Freeware List
YoutubeX
http://www.youtubex.com/

Free YouTube to iPod Converter
http://www.dirfile.com/free_youtube_to_i...

Youtube Video Downloader - 100% Freeware Last updated: June, 1
Do you usually view videos in YouTube? For sure that you have ever viewed any video from that website, and do you wish to play those favar videos in your cell phone? and maybe you have felt a bit upset because you can’t download them. But now, the 100% FREEWARE Youtube Video Downloader will let you download those videos you viewed and surprised you!
Just install it, surf the web, and when you find the video you want to download, copy & paste the link in the New Download URL textbox and it will be saved in your harddisk, so you may convert it to your cell phone by Mobile Video Converter.
The Version 2.0 Pro can support downloading YouTube videos which need to confirm , and packaged with Mobile Video Converter only, but it's still FREE for you!!
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YouRipper
is a small tool that enables you to download video clips from YouTube and Google Video. It automatically clings itself to the title bar of your browser and all you have to do is copy and paste (or drag and drop) the URL of the YouTube page that contains the video clip and YouRipper will automatically extract the correct file and save it as Flash video (.flv) file in a folder of your choice. You will need a FLV player (available from SnapFiles for free) to play the saved files. YouRipper also contains a handy RSS reader that shows the latest videos on YouTube.
http://www.remlapsoftware.com/

Orbit Downloader - the fastest download manager!
Orbit Downloader is a great speed, super light, easy-to-use free download manager. It is based on p2p and multi-source downloading technology and supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, MMS and RTSP protocols. Using Orbit Downloader, you can almost download everything online with 500% faster speed, like youtube video, rapidshare files, flash and streaming media etc.
http://www.orbitdownloader.com/

YouTube Downloader 2.51
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_2...

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Stretch YouTube Videos
YouTube: Stretch YouTube Videos to Fit Your Browser Width
You already know about the Full Screen mode in YouTube video player
that scales the current video to fill the entire desktop screen.
The one big problem with full screen mode in YouTube player is that
you cannot do anything else on the computer while the video is playing
- you have the exit the FullScreen before initiating any other task.
There's however an excellent alternative to FullScreen and that's
about auto resizing the video player to fit the browser window. When
you resize the browser window, the dimensions of YouTube Video player
will change accordingly.
Here's how you fit the YouTube video in the browser window:
Say a YouTube Video URL is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJd...
To watch this clip in a resizable browser window without switching to
Full Screen, just rewrite the above URL a
http://www.youtube.com/v/vr3x_RRJdd4
In other words, just append the YouTube video ID to this URL
www.youtube.com/v/VIDEO_ID and maximize your browser. You can then
easily switch to other tabs, open new applications or do anything else
while the YouTube clip is still playing in the maximum possible screen
area.
[This is in response to a question posted on the forums - "How can I
send a YouTube Video so that when the person receives it there will
not be any other videos in the sidebars that can be opened." ]

What do you think about the live feature of one website?

2009-04-13T19:17:00.000-07:00

What do you think about the live feature of one website? People can send an email or post a ticket to you when they visit your website. Spam has made email to be abominable and ticket often makes a great delay to your customers. Even more, some visitors almost can not send any message to the websites which have no email, no ticket, no forum, no bbs, nothing but only with bald html text. I have to shrug my shoulders that websites like this are DEAD ones.

You should make your website live right now. It's really important to listen to your customers and get feedback from them. Please add a forum or an email contact to your website at once. For more, I would like to suggest you add a web chat to your website. Web chat is an instant messenger tool for the website and it can help you interact with your customers easily. In a word, web chat can make your website LIVE quickly.

There are some webchats suitable for your website. I would like to recommend the AJAX webchat, Java webchat and flash webchat to you. AJAX chat is very lite but it always needs to request the server and this makes it delay in some degree. Java chat is powerful but it always needs to ask visitors to install the JVM plugin. Flash chat is the best one which is neither delay nor plugin installation, honestly, it need to install flash player but almost every personal computer in the world installs it.

I would like to introduce NestChat to your website because it is a flash web chat, more important, it is a video chat. There is a clean skin to it. NestChat can supply 23 languages to most websites in internet. You can get a quick look by the screenshots below,

video chat to a girl

chat rooms to defferent subjects

to view demo directly: http://www.convertdirect.com/

Some people want to complaint that to get and install this webchat are very difficult. I hate the difficulties. You can get it for FREE . It needn't be installed, you only need to add a html code to your website and it will be ok.

There are many ways to make the website live. To add a webchat is only one way to it although it's very available. I am not sure that NestChat is a better choice to you. You can try it and send a flower or a bad egg to it at the end time. But please think deeply about the "live" problem to your website; don't lose your loyal customers any more.

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What is the title of a small business owner?

2009-04-12T20:13:00.000-07:00

Q: I’m curious as to what the title of a small business owner would be. Particularly of a software development business. I know that for a company it would be something along the lines of director CEO but I don't know for a small business.

A: The answer to this question is so much fun that I have to tell you! You can call yourself anything that you want! When you are filling out the forms as an owner, many states list an option to have an owner's title! You can be called anything you want. CEO is normal, but you can be called the Chief or the Big Cheese! I knew a guy who liked the Flintstones a lot and wanted to have the title Grand Poobah of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes! It really depends on your preference. It is different when you become a corporation, but until then!! You don't actually have to have anyone call you by your title, you can just be the owner or president in your office, but on paper... Enjoy!

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I'm looking for a different tasty Mexican dish to make for dinner tonight.

2009-04-09T19:59:00.000-07:00

Q: I've made cheese enchiladas, tacos, and burritos. I want to make something different but can't think of anything. I'm also not a super talented cook or anything; I can cook pretty basic stuff. Any ideas?

A: Mexican Beef Chimichangas

Ingredients:
6 large flour tortillas
3 cup Mexican Meat Mix, (see recipe)
Vegetable oil, for frying
Shredded lettuce
1 cup salsa
2 tomatoes, chopped
1 cup Guacamole, (see recipe)
1 cup sour cream
6 ripe olives, for garnish

Instructions:
Warm tortillas in microwave about 30 seconds. Heat Mexican Meat Mix in a
saucepan. Heat a small amount of oil in a large skillet. Spread 1/2 cup
Mexican Meat Mix over the lower thrid of each tortilla. Fold the bottom
edge
of tortilla up over filling. Fold both sides toward the center and roll
into a
cylinder. Secure with a wooden pick. Fry 2 chimichangas at a time in hot
oil 2
minutes until golden and crisp. Drain on paper towels. Serve hot over a
layer
of shredded lettuce. Top with salsa, tomatoes, Guacamole and sour cream.
Garnish each with an olive. Makes 6 chimichangas.

Mexican Meat Mix

Ingredients:
5 lb beef roast *
3 large onions, chopped
2 can (7 oz) green chili salsa
4 tbsp flour
1 tsp ground cumin
3 tbsp vegetable shortening
1 can (4 oz) chopped green chilis
1/4 tsp garlic powder
4 tsp salt
1 juices from beef roast

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 200 degrees F. (95 degrees C) Place Beef roast (or
combination of beef and pork roasts to total 5 lbs) in a large
roasting pan or dutch oven. Do not add salt or water. Cover with a
tight lid and roast about 12 hours, or until well done. Or cook
roasts with 1 cup water in pressure cooker 35 to 40 minutes. Drain
meat, reserving juices. Cool meat, then remove bones. Shred meat and
set aside. Melt shortening in a large skilled. Add onions and green
chilies. Saute 1 minute. Add green chili salsa, garlic powder, flour,
salt and cumin. Cook 1 minute over medium-low heat. Stir in reserved
meat juices and shredded meat. Cook 5 minutes until thick. Cool. Put
about 3 cups mix into 3 1-quart containers, leaving 1/2-inch space at
top. Seal and label containers Mexican Meat Mix and freeze. Use
within 6 months. Makes about 9 cups of Mix.

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For Grandparents- What cliques or crowds were present in your high school?

2009-04-08T19:39:00.000-07:00

Q: I am doing some research for my Adolescent Development class, and I need to ask this question to grandparents. Since I have none of my own, I thought some of you grandparents may be able to give me some information. Thank you very much!

A: Well, I graduated in 1961. There were the black leather jackets and the girls who hung out with them were considered loose (w/o morals). Then there were the intellectuals; not necessarily popular, but the nerds would fit into this type of student. They always got A's and were the teacher's pet. There was the athletic and pompon girls who were considered the "popular"students b/c they always were coupled and "going steady." This was always shown by the guy wearing the girl's class ring on his pinky and the girls wearing the guy's ring either on a necklace or made smaller by winding tape around the back of the ring. (they were also the most likely to "go all the way.") Then, there were those who seemed to be able to fit in anywhere they wanted. They might be active in their church or synagogue, scouts, athletics, music, part time work, co-op program, or looking toward college (usually jr. college). This type of student didn't feel he/she needed to fit in or be categorized into one group or another. They just did their own thing. They followed the rules most of the time, got passing grades, and thought about preparing for a trade or college and profession. They respected their parents, teachers and most adults. They were a little shy about dating, but really wanted to go "out" with someone. Can you guess which group I was in?
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How do you go about organizing all your "junk?"?

2009-04-08T19:20:00.000-07:00

Q: Seriously...where do I even start? My husband and I have moved around quite a bit in the last 5 years we've been married (7 times to be exact). We have lived in our current house for the past 3 months, but do plan on moving as soon as our last house sells and we can buy a new house (we switched jobs and towns, so we own a house and rent a house).

My question is, we have a ton of boxes still laying around b/c we don't really know where to put the stuff. How do you organize all your odds and ends? The problem boxes have stuff like extra shoelaces, video games, alarm clocks, decorations, thank you cards (new), batteries, nail clippers, etc. We already have a "junk" drawer in the kitchen that is full (more batteries, screwdrivers, tape, pens, etc). How do I organize this stuff? Most of the stuff I don't want to throw away b/c we will use it at one time or another, but we just don't have a place for it...help please :)

A: I would suggest that you take a weekend to sort through everything and organize it by the room that would make the most sense to store it. For example, video games would go in the room with TV or computer, shoe laces in a closet where you keep your shoes, nail clippers in the bathroom, etc. Gather all the stuff together in the largest room and start making piles labeled Bathroom, Kitchen, Master Bedroom, Family Room, etc. Then you and your husband decide together where stuff should go. As you're sorting, maybe you can find some more things that you really don't need and you can just get rid of them.

Before you start putting stuff away, you need to organize your closets, cabinets, drawers, shelves, etc. You may have to invest some money in a lot of clear plastic storage containers, shelving, hooks, drawer organizers and closet organizers...and a label maker.

If you just don't have closet space, start hanging things on the walls. I bought an economy-pack of those Command Adhesive Hooks from 3M. I put them about 6 of them on my closet wall and that's where I hang all my purses. Or you could buy shelving and decorative fabric boxes. Put up the shelves and store the boxes in your bedroom or family room. Make sure you label them so when you go to find stuff, you don't have to pull every box off the shelf to find it.

If you don't already have one, you should get a desk with lots of drawers or a computer armoire with storage for all your office supply stuff (tape, pens, etc). A roll top desk that you can close, or one of the armoires that you can close the doors on are great. You can keep the inside as messy as you want and close the doors when you're not using it.

For screwdrivers and other tools, you should really have a tool box. We keep a medium sized one in the garage for the tools we don't use every day, but then I have a small box in one of our junk drawers where I keep a Phillips head, a flat head, a measuring tape and a small hammer for every day use.

Trunks are a great way to store stuff that you don't use that often and open up room in a closet where you can store stuff that you use all the time. Replace your coffee and/or end tables with storage trunks for games, video games etc. Put another trunk at the end of your bed for extra bedding and pillows.

If you have a set of luggage, don't let it go unused when you're not traveling. Store seasonal clothes in there--winter clothes in the summer and summer clothes in the winter. If you keep all of your clothes in your closet year round, it wastes a lot of space, especially the bulky winter stuff. I remember when I was a kid my mom would pull the seasonal clothes out of the attic and it was like getting new clothes every time!

It may cost some money to get organized, but it will be worth it. Check out deals at the dollar store for small, plastic containers, and hit up Wal-Mart, Target or even Ikea for the rest.

Lastly, organizing is not something you do once and forget about. You are constantly buying new stuff and you will constantly stop using other stuff. When we get busy we tend to throw stuff somewhere just to get it out of the way, and before you know it, that nice organized bathroom drawer is unmanageable again. Once or even twice a year take the time to reorganize everything. If you find that to be too overwhelming, then do one room every month and when you've done the whole house, start over again.
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What is the title of a small business owner?

2009-04-07T22:47:00.000-07:00

Q: I'm curious as to what the title of a small business owner would be. Particularly of a software development business. I know that for a company it would be something along the lines of director CEO but I don't know for a small business.

A: The answer to this question is so much fun that I have to tell you! You can call yourself anything that you want! When you are filling out the forms as an owner, many states list an option to have an owner's title! You can be called anything you want. CEO is normal, but you can be called the Chief or the Big Cheese! I knew a guy who liked the Flintstones a lot and wanted to have the title Grand Poona of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes! It really depends on your preference. It is different when you become a corporation, but until then!! You don't actually have to have anyone call you by your title; you can just be the owner or president in your office, but on paper... Enjoy!
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For Grandparents- What cliques or crowds were present in your high school?

2009-04-07T20:20:00.000-07:00

Q: I am doing some research for my Adolescent Development class, and I need to ask this question to grandparents. Since I have none of my own, I thought some of you grandparents may be able to give me some information of DVD Converter . Thank you very much!

A: I went to a co Ed high school for three years, until I felt I'd had enough
of the cliques, and the snobs, and the geeks and the greasers, who
were the guys who were Elvis annexes'. I felt I wasn't getting enough
out of that school, due to the rating system going on DVD to Flash
. The highest
elevated group, we called, "the Soshes'(short for Socials). They were a definite clique. And they all lived in the same general neighborhood of high tax bracket homes at our end of town. They had to have the latest in clothes, the best looking boyfriends/girlfriends, and these were of the class that would have their noses done for their senior graduation present, if needed. The girls didn't have their own cars, so they made sure they had junior or senior boyfriends, who did, right from Freshman year on. You would see them driving down the main drag of our city on a Friday and Saturday night,in a continuous parade in shiny chromed cars of mostly by gone years. Some souped up, and decorated with flames, and other decals. They all had to be super shiny to reflect the theatre lights on Broadway as they drove by.
I don't believe any of them studied very hard, as they were always
out on school nights for a little while DVD to FLV
. The girls would congregate at
one friends house, and the guys, I suppose did too.
The rest of us had to study, to pass, since we didn't come from
the upper crust class of kids. No matter how good looking any of us
were. You had to come from the same background and have the money to be accepted, by those kids. And most of us weren't that
bothered. Unless one of the soshes' wanted to borrow free writing DVD to SWF

Paper from us, or wanted to copy our answers for a test. I remember
one of the more popular girls doing that with me. She shmoozed me
before the test, and any other time, she didn't give me the time of the
day. I let her copy that one time, and I took a barely passable grade,
by not putting down the right answers. She never looked in my direction again.
I fell into a middle group. It wasn't a clique, I was one of the inde-
pendants. One who did stay up with the trends but I didn't have a
wardrobe full, like the sosh girls apparently did. I had two up to date
outfits that appeared once a week and that was it. The rest were from
the previous school year, with some new accents. I had three close
friends, and later a boy friend who set tongues wagging when they
saw him. Luckily, he didn't go to our school. Which made him all the
more intriguing.
The nerds did have a small group. I'd see them in the cafeteria, or
in study hall. Or up in the projection booth helping with a movie or
something. Or they were in the band room. They seemed to be cut
out by the same cookie cutter. Wearing plaid flannel shirts in the
winter and fall and spring.Always buttoned down at the wrist. And most seemed to wear glasses. Though I did also. But I was a geek
or a nerd.
The geeks, were below the nerds. And they were more childlike in
their personalities. More like 6th graders, who were in no hurry to
grow up. They weren't into dating, or being with girls. They just were
there.
And the greasers, wore their leather jackets all the time. They wanted to look cool always. They had the greased down duck tails
folded in perfectly in back. One would walk with a toothpick in his
mouth to the side. He had a coil of a curl down on his forehead, like
John Travolta wore in Grease. And the sides were slicked back over
the ears. These were the boys, who smoked before and after school.
They thought that was a cool thing to do also. They were the sleepers
in class at the back of the classrooms in the last row. They didn't
study in study hall either. I guess they all thought they'ed be great
car mechanics some day, since they loved to work on their cars and
keep them hopped up and cool sounding, with their glass packed
mufflers, that were really noisey.
There was also a very small group of those preppy types. They
were the cheer leaders, and pep squad. All pom pom carries at all
the football games. They were mostly to themselves as if they were
kings and queens of some high royal order. If they hung around with
anyone else, it was someone from the sosh's group.
I chose to finish highschool at an all girls school that had college
prep classes available. At the time, I was interested in becoming a
nurse, so I found the classes necessary there. I had finally found my
true niche there. And met another great boy from that had gone to the
all boys school nearby. I had more fun in my senior year, than my
previoius three at the other school. And I actually learned more than
I ever dreamed I could. We all seemed to be of the same thought,
we wanted to learn and apply it to a vocation some day soon. And
some of us did and some of us didn't as I was later to learn.

What can grow in a hanging planter?

2009-04-06T20:00:00.000-07:00

Q: I would like to have a garden , but my two dogs would trample it when they are outside playing. I want to make salsa this summer so I would like to grow ingredients. Can everything that I want to grow survive in a hanging planter that is hung from my patio? I want to grow tomatoes
, jalapenos, bell peppers, and cilantro. Thanks for your help!

A: You can grow all off the plants you listed in hanging pots. I do it off my patio each summer and call it my salsa garden.

Start by drilling a 3/4" hole in the center of bottom
of the pot. Hang the pot, and insert a Tomato plant upside down into the bottom of the pot. Gently pack dirt around the tomato root, and then fill with a good potting soil. In the center of the pot plant a pepper plant and then a cilantro plant near the edge of the pot.

At first the tomato will grow sideways and try to grow up the side of the pot. As it gets larger, it will start to hang down and get bushy. Early Girl Tomato or Cherry Tomato
work best.

As the Cilantro matures, clip with scissors to slow the Cilantro going to seed. When the Cilantro is mature, plant a seed on the other side of the pot to ensure Cilantro all summer. Repeat on all four sides as needed.

What are good ways to transfer from co sleeping to their own bed?

2009-04-02T19:52:00.000-07:00

Q: My son is almost 7 months old and within the next few months we'd like to begin to try to persuade him to sleep in his own crib, which is in our room. Not because I don't enjoy co sleeping but because it's getting mighty uncomfortable for all of us and with the weather getting hotter, the baby getting bigger it seems that our full size bed isn't very full at all, in fact it's tight and cramped and really really hot for all of us. We use the AC, we use fans in the room and very little bedding however it's just not working and none
of us are getting much rest because of this. What are some good ways to transfer him in a nurturing, loving manner to his own crib (it will be right next to our bed at night). I'm not willing to let him CIO so please don't suggest that. Thanks in advance.

A: Cuddle Caleb to sleep in a chair or in your bed as usual. Once he's out (really out, not fake out like they like to do), move him into his crib. One of the things I do is I tuck my housecoat into his crib or cover him with it so he still has my scent (nice scent, not smelly).

Next step? Listen well to his cries. If he cries to eat, feed him. If he cries for a quick snuggle, give him one. If he just moans and groans leave him, and if he has that wimpy, sleepy cry, give him a wiggle while he's still lying down (you can also try a quiet, soft nighttime musical toy for him - we use one and it's great!). Every time he wakes up, handle it. If it happens 10 times - and it will some nights, just meet his needs, and then put him into the crib.

It may take 2 days, it may take 2 weeks, but he will get used to it. BUT - here's the hard part. Once you're committed to making this move, don't bring him back into your bed with you to actually sleep. What that will do is teach him that it's attainable. So, for the next while, it's not attainable for him. And it's imperative that there is consistency with it. Now, this is tricky, because it's sooo much easier to nurse him in bed right? You still can, just put him back in his crib once you're done. Good luck not falling asleep!

Or, you can buy a king-sized bed (always good to have options, eh?!)

I put a link in to the little nighttime toy we use for Jakers - I have to say, it is amazing and much, much better than the Glo-Worm. Our little guy will actually turn it on himself at night now; it is so cute!

I hope this helps hon! Cheers to sleeping more than 4 hours at a time without baby feet in your side (be prepared...you're gonna miss him and want him cuddled up with you...uh oh!).

*Edit
Shirley? Who's Shirley? She sounds like a sexy genius! Hardy har!

You know, it's really not bad once you get used to the maternal guilt and missing him. Youch! Really, though, you still snuggle, you nurse, there's still tonnes of love, he's just in his crib for the heavy parts of his sleep. Besides, that way you can wake up to see his bouncing and smiles at the side of the crib - your heart will just melt!

And, once he has it down pat and he's a little older, you can get those little naps with him again!

How to keep videos with songs on youtube without copyright infringement?

2009-04-01T19:56:00.000-07:00

Q : I've uploaded 2 video art pieces with songs (one by Nine Inch Nails, one by Queens of the Stone Age) in the background and it tells me they're rejected because the audio. But how do other people get away with uploading commercial audio?

A : I regret to inform you that any music which is not your creation
and used as part of your video is indeed copyright infringement.
Companies like UMG, Warner and Viacom not only "own" their
music, they also "own" the rights to them, which include how
and where the music can be publicly presented and performed.

Thus they would be 100% within their rights to claim the music
in your video as their own -- especially if you didn't seek written
permission or licence to use it and "broadcast" it over YouTube
.
They could easily and legally YouTube
YouTube
YouTube
YouTube
YouTube
YouTube to take your video
"off the air" (potentially banning you) for any number of reasons:

1) If you used "their music", it is considered part of the famous
sentence "unauthorized duplication, whether in whole or in part,
without the expressed written consent
of...." Their fear wouldn't
just be about you, but also other people who could conceivably
download, copy or listen to that music without having bought it.

2) You are potentially lessening the value of "their property" by
presenting and "broadcasting" it in a bad-quality, tiny 4x3-inch,
poor-resolution, mono-sounding and possibly
amateurish video.

3) They may think your video makes "their property" look either
bad, cheap or unappealing to someone who could otherwise be
considering purchasing "their music".

4) They could also be thinking that anyone's memory or mental
image of "their music" could forever be "haunted" by images of
your video or your YouTube channel if they feel it's in bad taste.
You may involuntarily be "defaming" the artist and/or the music.

Even if you've given due credit on your video to the music label,
the artist or the music itself, that should never be construed as
a validation, excuse or justification for you (and really YouTube)
to "break the law". You can always claim that your video is "for
personal use only", but then they could come back at you with
some interesting questions: A) why did you upload the video to
YouTube, B) why did you "steal" the artist's music, and C) how
did you acquire that music? (note: Even if you bought it legally,
that doesn't give you blanket permission to use it "willy-nilly" or
however you like, as though you're a legal representative of the
artist.)

As for the other people who may be uploading the same music,
either YouTube will get to them eventually or somebody who is
jealous will "flag" their video. If you're willing to take the chance
and reupload your video with the same music, avoid writing the
name of the song or the artist in either your title, description or
tags. Also, don’t use sentences like "no copyright infringement
intended", "I do not own the song" or "I don't take any credit for
this music". YouTube's computers search for phrases like that.

You should also bear in mind that the music-recording industry
is beginning to implement the use of inaudible "watermarks" or
"fingerprints" hidden inside their music, in order to uncover and
identify their illicit use. As such, it's conceivable that no matter
how many times you upload your video, it'll always be rejected
because of copyright reasons. You'd thus probably have to find
a different recording of the music you would want to use. If you
noticed other videos using the same music, they were probably
uploaded before this new technology started coming into being.

The only possible exception to everything I just wrote is for you
to use music that is less than 30 seconds long. If you listen to
any talk-show on radio or TV, they will never play or use music
longer than 30 secs during a guest introduction or segué going
into and out of commercials. Guess what the reason is.

How do you build a retaining wall for a garden?

2009-03-31T22:16:00.000-07:00

Q: we just put up a new fence, but the thing is, my fiancé wanted it to look level instead of it sloping downwards with the hill that’s in our yard, so now at the far end, there is about 8 inches of a gap between the bottom of the fence and the ground. So we've decided that we're just going to build it up when we start planting there. i figured with the amount of dirt/mulch needed to reach that level we're going to have to put in some type of retaining wall or else we're just going to have to keep building it up after it rains, its windy, whatever.

so, if the yard was flat, I could figure this out because it would just be like 2-3 rows of whatever stone we're using, but the fact that its not flat, but we want it appear to be flat.... that’s where I’m lost. the stone we're looking at are 2"tall, so we figured for that part
That’s closest to the house it would be 2 stones
tall, and the farther part would be about 4 or 5 stones tall.

So, how do you make it build up and still look flat? i figured you start at the lower end, but how do you know where to stop with that row? Do you know any good websites that could explain it? The only ones I’ve found are for the same height all the way, which isn’t helpful. Thanks !

A: We live on the side of a hill and have many retaining walls of various heights and types.

We have a couple made from keystone concrete blocks. They run into the side of the hill. We began by starting at the low end and laid one row of level blocks until one of them was almost completely buried in the hill. We added a second row and it "died" in the hill about one block further. We continued this process until we got the height we wanted.

As a matter of interest, we some retaining wall made from concrete, some with brick and mortar, some with railroad ties and some with the concrete keystones. All of the walls are about 13 years old. The brick and mortar walls have held up pretty well but one section has had to be repaired due to a large crack. They railroad ties are all beginning to decay and some will need to be replaced soon. The concrete keystones are a solid as the day we put them in.

The bottom line, I would never use railroad ties again but only the heavy concrete keystone blocks or something similar. If you check around, there are some new designs similar to the keystone that is available at most home centers. These look more like field stones and are much more attractive than the ones we used.

What is an internet relationship and why do get close to internet relation much faster than in real?

2009-03-30T22:46:00.000-07:00

Q： what is an internet friendship
? How close can we go with an opposite sex having internet friendship? What is the difference of dating in real person and internet dating? Why do we feel close with internet friends more than anything else and feel like meeting him / her again and again in person ?

A: I think people move in relationships faster online because there is no fear of not being able to say what you actually feel, and you are able to openly express yourself.

Also so many people change themselves online to have a personality that you would like, and those people find out little things about you and incorporate it into who they "are" to make you like them more.

And the fact that you can either lie about your personality is scary, because what if you do meet the person? And then you may never know who you can trust and may not meet real friendly people.

My advise is that less people should indulge on online RELATIONSHIPS
and stick with FRIENDSHIP.

Enjoy Flash Video on Sony PSP

2009-03-29T22:07:00.000-07:00

The PlayStation Portable (officially abbreviated PSP) is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. Development of the console was first announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on May 11, 2004 at a Sony press conference before E3 2004. The system was released in Japan on December 12, 2004, in North America on March 24, 2005, and in the PAL region on September 1, 2005.

The PlayStation Portable is the first handheld video game console to use an optical disc format, Universal Media Disc (UMD), as its primary storage media. Other distinguishing features of the console include its large viewing screen, robust multi-media capabilities, and connectivity with the PlayStation 3, other PSPs, and the Internet.

How to enjoy FLV files from video sharing sites on your Sony PSP?

Moyea FLV Editor Pro would be the best solution, this application integrates free FLV Downloader and free PSP Video Manager all in one, what's more, Pro3 offers you powerful editing function which is designed to meet the individual needs, such as merge, trim and crop video, add watermark, insert special effects, output FLV and capture thumbnail.

Sounds perfect, right? Now let's get a perfect enjoyment immediately by following the simple steps below:

1. Launch the program, the main interface will be like this:

2. Import FLV into the sequence list.

Drag and drop FLV from Resource Manager to the Sequence List or hit "Import" to load FLV files. If free YouTube FLV Downloader is launched from "Tools" on Main Menu, the downloaded FLV from YouTube will appear in "YouTube Downloaded FLV" tab. You can drag it to the Sequence List directly.

PSP Video Manager

Click to run PSP Video Manger and start to transfer video files to your PSP. Moyea PSP Video Manager is a freeware, with which you can transfer files between PSP and computer freely.

PSP Video Manager is automatically integrated with DVD to PSP Converter, and you don't have to download the installer of PSP Video Manger from our website individually. When using PSP Video Manager, please make sure that the thumbnail is in the same folder with the MP4 file.

3. Edit station

Here you can clip the video, add watermark to the video, as well as adjust it's effect, such as configure the brightness, contrast and the volume, etc.

Watermark

Add any number images or texts at any time to the video by clicking "+" under the "Watermark" tab

4. Export the sequence to convert.

Click "Export" for output, this window will pop up, choose one output PSP format as you like:

Click "OK" to convert，you can open the output folder or shut down computer automatically after conversion by the settings in the red pane:

After conversion is completed, everything is ready for you to transfer the videos to PSP using the data wire and enjoy them on your PSP!

What happens after you file Chapter 7 bankruptcy?

2009-03-26T20:02:00.000-07:00

Q: What will happen after I meet with an attorneyto file chapter 7. How long does the process take.

A: Once your file
You are given a date of what is known as the meeting of creditors (341a hearing). This is generally 30-45 days from the date of filing. The court will notify your creditors of this meeting and that you have filed Bankruptcy. For about 2-3 weeks your creditors may still call you until they are notified
. During this time you just need to inform them that you have filed Bankruptcy
. Don't worry about the meeting of creditors as it is rare if the creditors ever show up.

At the hearing the Trustee will just ask you if everything you put in your petition is correct. They may also have a few other questions, but as long as you are not trying to hide anything you are fine.

A majority of the time this meeting is over in about 5-10 minutes and taken care of at this first meeting. If so 60 days after this you will receive your discharge.

How to convert Flash Video to DVD

2009-03-25T19:06:00.000-07:00

There are so many funny videos which are all in FLV file format on video sharing sites, such as YouTube, MySpace, Google Video; how to Convert FLV to DVD and enjoy with DVD player? Moyea FLV Editor Pro can satisfy your wanting with powerful functions.

Why choose Moyea FLV Editor Pro to convert FLV to DVD?
1. FLV Editor Pro not only converts FLV files on your PC and YouTube videos to DVD, but also integrates FLV Downloader together. You can get YouTube videos by launching FLV Downloader.
2. FLV Editor Pro provides multiple DVD output options: DVD NTSC (4:3), DVD PAL (4:3), DVD NTSC (16:9) and DVD PAL (16:9). You can combine several videos into one under the "Merge" tab in the "Toolbar" section.
3. FLV Editor Pro offers you powerful editing function which is designed to meet the individual needs, such as merge, trim and crop video, add watermark, insert special effects, output FLV and capture thumbnail.

Source:

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Get a perfect enjoyment immediately by following the simple steps below:

Install and launch Moyea FLV Editor Pro 3, the main interface will be like this:

Import FLV into the sequence list.

Drag and drop FLV from Resource Manager to the Sequence List or hit "Import" to load FLV files. If FLV Downloader is launched from "Tools" on Main Menu, the downloaded FLV from YouTube will appear in "Downloaded FLV" tab with free YouTube FLV Downloader. You can drag it to the Sequence List directly.

Merge

Choose "Merge" to combine the files selected into one sequence, the files you selected only exist in this sequence.

Choose "Copy Merge" to combine the files selected into a new sequence, the files you selected will exist both in the new sequence and in the previous sequence.

Edit

A). Clip

Click "Clip" in Edit Station, you can reduce the video duration as well as crop the video size by typing the value in edit box or drag the blue slide bar directly.

B). Watermark

Add any number images or texts at any time to the video by clicking "+" under the "Watermark" tab

Adjust the origin and size of the watermark by dragging the image or text on the video freely. Typing the value in edit box also is available.

Click to adjust the tolerance of the image watermark (logo) by checking "Enable transparent color":

Float the window by clicking to preview the watermark comfortably:

C). Effect

Click "Effect" to configure the brightness, contrast and the volume, especially you can choose the flip method and the special effects like invert color, emboss, engrave, etc.

Export the sequence to convert.

Click "Export" for output. Select "Export" for all the sequences and select "Export Selected" for the selected sequence output.

After choosing the output method, the output setting window will pop up. Choose "DVD NTSC (16:9)" as the output format and specify the output folder to save the converted files.

Click "OK" to convert, you can open the output folder or shut down computer automatically after conversion by the settings in the red pane:

After conversion is completed, you can play the output videos in media player, or use free burner to burn the output videos in DVD Disc, then you can enjoy them on your home DVD player at once!

How to convert Flash Video to MP4 for enjoying on your iPhone

2009-03-24T23:46:00.000-07:00

What's Apple iPhone?

Apple iPhone is the revolutionary new mobile phone that works both as a cellular phone and iPod player, allowing you to store music as well as video from your iTunes library on it for playback on the go.

What is Flash video?

Flash video, or FLV, is the proprietary file format for delivering video files on the Internet, and it is widely applied today.

FLV Editor Pro is the best choice for you to convert FLV to iPhone; you can get YouTube videos by launching FLV Downloader which has been integrated in Pro3.

Launch Moyea FLV to Video Converter Pro 3, the main interface will be like this:

FLV to DVD converter

Import Flash video flv files to the program

Drag and drop FLV from Resource Manager to the Sequence List or hit "Import" to load FLV files. If FLV Downloader is launched from "Tools" on Main Menu, the downloaded FLV from YouTube will appear in "Downloaded FLV" tab with free flv downloader. You can drag it to the Sequence List directly.

Powerful editing function

Pro3 offers you powerful editing function which isdesigned to meet the individual needs, such as merge, trim and crop video, add watermark, insert special effects, output FLV and capture thumbnail. You can also preview the watermark comfortably by clicking the button in the red pane to float the window:

Settings

Click "Export" to bring out this interface, you can adjust the audio and video settings to fit the iPhone playback. Before all the settings, please select the right output format in the drop-down list of "Output Format". Choose whatever you like under "iPhone". And then you can do the settings like video codec, audio codec, sample rate, channels, frame size, and so on.

Convert

Once you have set the relevant parameters for the output iPhone video, you canclick "OK" to convert:

Moyea FLV to Video Converter is easy to use and efficient. With this program, converting your favorite FLV files to the video for playback on iPhone is within a few clicks.

Now, Moyea offers the free trial version of the FLV to video conversion program on its website, have a try, and enjoy it!

source:
http://www.video-to-flash.com/dvd_to_flash_converter/
http://www.video-to-flash.com/dvd-to-swf/
http://www.video-to-flash.com/dvd-to-flv/

How to convert Flash Video to MP4 for enjoying on your iPhone

2009-03-24T23:36:00.000-07:00

How to add your own music and photos to a YouTube video clip?

2009-03-24T23:14:00.000-07:00

"I want to add my own music and photos to a YouTube video clip but don't have the budget to buy Adobe Premiere.” Do you have the same problem? Yes Adobe Premiere is too expensive and until CS3 it can not support importing FLV format file. The lack of FLV edit software really brought mess to our work. But now you can get released from high price and useless functions, because Moyea Flash Video MX Pro can help you.

This software cost less but has powerful abilities like: trimming, cropping, adding picture/text watermark, replacing audio, converting video to FLV and adding beautiful player skins etc.

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http://www.video-to-flash.com/dvd-to-swf/
http://www.video-to-flash.com/dvd-to-flv/

This article will teach you how to add your own music and photos to a YouTube video clip.

After you install and launch the program, you can see this interface.

Step1. Import video

Import your .flv file and you can see it in the preview panel.

Step2. Add image to your video

Choose Watermark section, click Add watermark button> Add Image> choose the picture you want to add. Then you can see the effect in the following picture.

Here you also can set the background of your picture to transparent by click color.jpg, into this interface.

Set the background color to white. See, the background becomes transparent.

Of course you also can set the Option and Time offset of your watermark in this section.

Step3. Replace the audio

Click Next, you can see this interface.

Here in Replace audio section (red marked), you can replace the original audio to your own audio. Say, your favorite song.

Click the red marked button to add audio, and if you select Loop that means if your audio is shorter then the video, the audio will keep playing from the start automatically.

Step4. Add player skin and preloader

Click Next, into this interface.

This software provides many beautiful players, preloaders and special effects to bright your video.

Step5. Conversion

The final step, click OK and wait a few minutes you will get your own FLV file.

How to convert video to SWF format?

2009-03-22T20:22:00.000-07:00

A few days ago one of my friends asked me how to convert his videos to SWF format so he can upload them to his website to broadcast his company. Actually it is simple what we need is a video to Flash converter. It is easy to say but find the best one is difficult as there are so many similar applications on the market. Here I recommend Moyea Flash Video MX Pro. This software can support imputing nearly any video format and export .flv file, .swf file and .html file. You can use the .html file as a webpage directly.

This article will tell you how to convert video to SWF directly.

After you install and launch the program, you can see this interface.

Step1. Import video

Let’s take an MP4 file for example. Import the video and you can see it in the preview panel.

Here you can edit your video like trimming and cropping, adding watermark on your video, setting brightness and contrast, even capture a snapshot of your video. Now I will teach you how to add a logo on your video. This software allows you to add an image watermark or a text watermark. Choose Watermark section, press add button, and you can choose add an image or a text watermark.

After you add the watermark, you can see the effect like this:

Step2. Output settings

In this section, you can choose the output folder and output formats. Here are three choices for you to choose "Generate Flash video (FLV)", "Embed the video in SWF and play in timeline", and "Generate HTML file".

If you want to convert your video to SWF file only please select Embed the video in SWF and play in timeline or do not select Generate Flash video (FLV). As a default this software can generate a FLV file, a SWF file and a HTML file, if you want to upload your video on your website please put all these three files in the same folder and the HTML file can be used directly as a web page.

Step3. Add player and preloader

As you see in above picture, you can add a player skin and preloader on your video and with beautiful special effects.

Step4. Convert

In the final interface, just press the Start button you can get your SWF file in a few minutes.

How to play FLV files online and offline with free FLV player?

2009-03-19T20:30:00.000-07:00

Do you have met such problem? Download a video from YouTube but you can not open it with Windows Media Player or Real player, so you can not enjoy the video on your PC. That is because the video you downloaded from YouTube is FLV format and Windows Media Player and Real player can not play this format video. But do not worry; you can solve this problem by installing a FLV player to player these FLV videos.

Here I recommend you the best free FLV player: Moyea FLV Player. It is totally free and can play YouTube videos (FLV) on your local or online video with the help of the video URL. The best thing is it is easy to use and open files very quickly.

You can play FLV files with this free FLV player like the following steps.

Step1. Install this FLV player.

After you successfully installed the FLV Player on your computer, you can see the main interface:

open_flv

Step2. Import FLV files this player.

Choose File> Open File, then you can see the Open FLV File dialog box pop up as the following picture:

The other way to import FLV files is via Open URL as well as from your local computer via Open File.



Select "Open URL" and you will face a pop-up asking you to enter your actual URL to grab the FLV files for playback:

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And if you checked Associate .flv File, the program can be optionally associated with .flv files, so you can just double-click them to play.

Step3. View FLV information.

With this player, you also can view the FLV file’s information like codec or bit rate etc. So you can know your FLV video in detail.

Step4. Various view size to choose.

As you see, we have four size to choose: Original Size (100%), Double Size (200%), Fixed Size and Full Screen.

Step5. Play list

Can you believe that this small player even has playlist function? You can choose View> Display playlist to show your playlist.

You can add video on the list by right click on the blank area> Add Files to Playlist.

So, do you find that you have already loved this player? If yes you can download it here.

How to convert MPG, MPEG to Flash SWF and Flash Video FLV to Share on web?

2009-03-18T22:17:00.000-07:00

If you are an Internet enthusiast and would like to share your MPG video with your friends on the web like your blog, you may be probably confused about the conversion from MPG to the proper file format for real time and efficient online sharing. Flash Video MX Pro offers you the right solutions of converting and encoding the Flash video file which is the proprietary file format for delivering video clips via Flash on the Internet. With the ubiquity of Adobe Flash Player, your uploaded FLV Flash video file could be viewed by thousands of audience on all the operating systems around the globe.

This article is a graphical tutorial on how to convert MPG to FLV for online delivery with Flash Video MX. Hope you will like this guide and enjoy reading it.

Flash Video MX is able to produce FLV that is ready for web publishing. You can create Flash Video by enhance its video quality, and customize its frame rate, size, duration, control bar, movie beginning & end, special effects, etc.

Firstly, please download a video converter Moyea Flash Video MX. Import the MPG video ready for the conversion.

Then, please follow the screen instructions step by step, and in the below interface, choose to generate FLV file in the Export, see the image below:

By default, the program will generate an HTML page for you, which gives you the access to post your created FLV file on your blog or other website to share with your friends. Another important part is the function to add special controls, which is the player skin. Besides, the special effects are helps you to customize your video.

Thirdly, you will go to the end settings of the program. Click Start to begin your conversion.

Then we will get the FLV file from your MPG file immediately that is ready for you to post online.

Moyea Flash Video MX is a professional Flash Video facility and an ideal choice for professional developers and designers. It is easy to use, yet powerful with excellent performance and can convert different formats of videos into high-quality and small-sized Flash Videos (FLV) in the least time, including that of AVI, MPG, MPEG, WMV, RM, RMVB, MOV, MP4, etc. It can automatically create Flash Video player (SWF) for the generated FLV. Besides, there are various skins and styles in the player to choose.

How to convert MKV to Flash?

2009-03-17T23:12:00.000-07:00

About MKV:

MKV, short for Matroska, is the container format. Similar with AVI known well by most of people, MKV is not a "Codec", namely, it is not a compression format. Compared with AVI, it has some advantages such as supporting "soft" subtitles (They are not encoded into the video, but can be displayed on the top, therefore can be turned off.) and newer codec including H.264/AVC, or Vorbis, or AAC. To play it, you can download and install the codec CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack). Get it here:

http://cccp-project.net/download.php?type=cccp. Alternatively, choose VLC or Media Player Classic to install. Get more detailed information here: http://www.matroska.org/

Convert MKV to FLV:

Generally, we will download videos from movie websites and get files ending with *.mkv. Then how to put them into our web site? We need the conversion tool to convert MKV to Flash Video (FLV) which is easy to delivery over the internet. Below is the guide about how to convert MKV to FLV with Moyea Flash Video MX Pro.

Download Moyea Flash Video MX Pro and install it on your PC. Launch the program and then you can see the main interface:

1. Load MKV files into the program.

Click the folder icon and a dialogue box will pop up. Select MKV files on your computer to import. If you want to edit MKV files, you can add image or text watermark, crop and trim the video, capture the pictures, and insert the cuepoints. Click "Next" to continue.

2. Select the output file and specify output path.

Click folder icon to select where to save the converted files. Meanwhile, do not forget to choose the output files. By default, three files are checked. FLV, SWF (Progressive download from a web server) and HTML file. You can upload these three files into the server for displaying your video. Then hit "Next" to the following step.

3. Choose the appropriate player skin.

You have many choices for player skin, special effects and the preloader. Pick one to match your web site. In addition, you can configure settings about skin, playback, and the navigation for linking a web page. Click "Next" for the last step.

4. Start conversion.

Here you can see the list of the configured settings including input and output. Check them then click "Start" button to begin converting MKV to FLV. The output folder will auto pop up after the conversion is finished. Find them easily!

Now you get three files: FLV, SWF, and HTML. Upload them into the server for enjoying flash videos (FLV) on your web page or your blog!

Collect the most wonderful memories - how to capture the exciting moments.

2009-03-16T20:09:00.000-07:00

1. How to record the exciting games with DV?

No matter what kind of DV you are using, professional and non-professional, you will find it necessary to know some tips. Click the links below to get the details.

1) How to get the high quality videos

2) Tips for traveling with your video camera

2. How to capture the exciting stuffs with your DC
Sometimes cameras are better at capturing the specific moments when used in a right way. Here is an article telling you a compilation of tips, tricks and recommended settings for the Nikon D300, and is based on various discussions in forums and other D300 sites.

Maybe your camera is different from the one above. I also have some guides on DC in general. If you are a green hand on this, you will find them useful.

3. How to use your handset to capture pictures and videos
If you don't want to take a DV or DC, you can also record or take pictures with your handset. Many of the cell phones have a 3 megapixel camera or more, which is similar with a DC. So don't worry about whether you can get nice pictures from your mobile.
There are also thousands of brands of handsets with cameras. Let's take NOKIA N95 as an example. Here are the tips.

a. Click the capture button half-way to focus. Firmly click the button when you get the picture clear.

b. Hold the button for at least 1 second after you hear the capture noise, or there will be motion tail or Squint left.
c. The third point which you should notice is that you must keep the subject right in the middle of your screen.

How to create a video sharing web with the aid of Flash Video MX Pro?

2009-03-15T23:01:00.000-07:00

Want to create a website contains amazing photos and videos? Want to enrich your current website with other colorful elements? Is it difficult? No, the answer is No. With the help of Flash Video MX Pro, all of these will become easy. Below steps will tell you how easy the website will be established under the help of Flash Video MX Pro.

1) First step. Start the Flash Video MX Pro and import the video which you want to post to the website. See the below picture.

main interface

2) Second step. Click the button Next, you will come to the below interface. Have you noticed the option red marked below? Remember to check the “Generate HTML file”, this option will provide you an html file and help to create website later.

generate html

3) Third step. Start conversion and you will get the output folder after the conversion is finished.

Start conversion

From the HTML file, you will get the code similar to the following:

<!--<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/

shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="400" height="300">

<!--<param name=movie value="mflvplayer.swf?playerOpts=targetClip*demo.flv*s">

<!--<param name=quality value=high>

<!--<embed src="mflvplayer.swf?playerOpts=targetClip*demo.flv*s" quality=high pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/d

ownload/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300">

</embed>-->

</object>-->

Well, have you noticed the mflvplayer.swf in blue? The width="400" height="300" in black indicates the width and the height of your video.

The playerOpts=targetClip*demo.flv*s in bold indicates the name of the FLV file to be played while demo.flv is your video. You might be curious about targetClip, the asterisk separator and the "s" in the end.

In fact, playerOpts is not that simple. PlayerOpts consists of several segments, each of which is separated by "||", and each segment contains a property of the control bar. One segment is divided into 3 parts by the asterisk (*). The first part is the property name, the second part is the property value and the third part is the data type of the property. For instance, targetClip*demo.flv*s is a segment, targetClip is the property name, demo.flv is the property value and the "s" is the character string type of this property. This segment is to specify the path from which the control bar can play the video. There are also other properties. You can set multiple properties at a time, using "||" to separate different segments, code like the following:

playerOpts=targetClip*demo.flv*s||panelColor*255,0,0*c

In this way, when you are setting the targetClip property, you are also setting the panel color property. The panel color is the control bar color, the data type is color "c", and 255,0,0 is the RGB color. Please notice that the property name and data type are case sensitive.

Therefore, by expanding the code, you can enrich your website and create one web with streaming video you like.

Talk about MP4 with H.264 and FLV encoded by Flash 8 with alpha

2009-03-11T22:25:00.000-07:00

Talk about MP4 with H.264 and FLV encoded by Flash 8 with alpha

With the release of Flash Video MX SDK V2 version 2.0.3.1, Moyea is proud of its support of H.264 and Flash 8 with alpha video codec technology. In its newsletter, Moyea highlights the new version's two added functions, which support to generate the MP4 with H.264 and FLV encoded by Flash 8 with alpha, both of the two video formats can be supported by the latest Flash Player 9. What are they? Why these two functions are so good that worth of recommendation?

Firstly, I am willing to show the details of these two below:

H.264

1. What is H.264?

H.264 is the next-generation video compression technology in the MPEG-4 standard, also known as MPEG-4 Part 10. H.264 can match the best possible MPEG-2 quality at up to half the data rate. The MP4 features H.264 can deliver stunning quality at remarkably low data rates. This amazing technology gives you excellent results across a broad range of bandwidths. That is to say, by adding the function of generating the MP4 with H.264, you can enjoy the better MP4 video quality which is supported by the latest Flash Player 9 though this Flash Video converter command-line.

2. The advantages of H.264 compared by the previous standards MPEG-2 Traditionally, HD MPEG-2 content at 1920x1080 runs at 12-20 Mbps, while H.264 can deliver 1920x1080 at 7-8 Mbps with better quality. Apart from that, H.264 provides DVD quality at about half the data rate of MPEG-2. Because of this efficiency, H.264, an ISO standard, stands to be the likely successor to MPEG-2 in the professional media industry.

Now the MP4 video in Flash Video MX SDK version 2.0.3.1 which encoded by H.264 can also be supported by Flash Player 9, which is the latest Flash player today. Since this Flash video encoder server can generate this two video formats- MP4, which can be supported by the latest Flash Player 9, Moyea is surely willing to highlight these two to our customers to enjoy them.

Flash 8 with alpha

1. What is Flash 8 with alpha?

Flash 8 with alpha is also a kind of video codec and its function can be the same with On2 VP6. The FLV encoded by this video codec will have the alpha channel. This alpha channel can help you to realize the function of picture-in-picture.

2. The advantages of the video codec Flash 8 with alpha

By using this video codec Flash 8 with alpha, you will no longer get the less than satisfactory results: any Flash "alpha" video had to be hacked together—with less than satisfactory results. This codec will allow you to convert the Flash "alpha" video to a Flash Video (FLV) file that has an alpha channel, and that's it—any objects or animations will show through in the background.

The Flash video MX SDK V2 is such a command line which can convert the video to Flash on server, which can be said a video to Flash console. By adding these two new functions, this Flash video encoder server has been greatly improved.

If you are seeking for such a server for your websites or clients, this article is just for you. BTW: Want to experience the two amazing functions, just visit http://www.video-to-flash.com/video_to_flash/

How to add link for videos to your website

2009-03-10T20:00:00.000-07:00

This guide aims to tell you how to set the URL that will be opened when you click the video screen or when the video comes to the end, as well as the way to count the video playing hits. Besides, you can also get the method of handling event.

There is nothing to it. Just follow the steps below:

1). Install and launch the Flash Video MX Std

2). Import video

Click the button in the top right corner to import video; of course you can do so many settings as you like by this program, or just forget it, if it is unnecessary.

3). Profile

Go to this interface by clicking "Next", on the player profile tab, you can set the player profile. By default, there is a default profile you can get. What's more, you can create a new player profile, and save it for next using.

A). Navigation

In the Video link box, set the URL that will be opened when you click the video screen:

Select "blank" from the Video link target drop-down box, the URL will be opened in a new window; select "parent" to open the URL in the parent window of current page, select "root" to open the URL in the root window of current page.

The same principles apply to this section:

1. Specify the URL that will be accessed when the video comes to the end in the End URL box.

2. Select "blank" from the End URL target drop-down box, the URL will be opened in a new window; select "parent" to open the URL in the parent window of current page, select "root" to open the URL in the root window of current page.

When End URL target is _swf that indicates the end URL is a URL of SWF file, the end URL target will be loaded into current Flash player window; when End URL target is _flv that indicates the end URL is a URL of FLV file, and the end URL target will be loaded in the current window and replace the current video.

B). Play action

1. Specify an URL in the Play URL box, The URL to be accessed in background using http GET method when the video start to play, if movie ID is set, a parameter named "movieID" will be passed to the URL.

2. The string in the Movie ID box will be passed to Play URL, which is used to count the video playing hits.

C). Event

Specify the name of a JavaScript function that will process the player events in the Event handler box. The function has a parameter named 'info', and it's an object which contains a list of event information, including event name, event parameters 'info' name.

You can refer to the following script when you operate in Event section, please note the red part:

You can refer to the following script when you operate in Event section, please note the red part:

function echo8383(info)

{

window.alert(info.name);

}

</script>

width="352" height="304">

allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="True" flashVars="disableAPI=no">

</embed>

</object>

</center>

Set URL in video for commercial purpose such as advertisement or just to meet individual needs. Sounds great, right? That's why I can't wait to share with you immediately, hope it helps.

Differences on the AVI and FLV Formats

2009-03-09T22:15:00.000-07:00

AVI is short for Audio Visual Interleaved. It's a computer graphics animation format used in Microsoft's video for Windows Standard, or a chunk-based container file format for storing sound and moving pictures defined by Microsoft. This format interleaves digitized video frames (or computer-generated frames) and synchronized audio in one file.

AVI is a common video file format with the extension name of .avi. The video quality can be very good at smaller resolutions, but files tend to be rather large. An AVI file can use different codecs and formats, so there is no set format for an AVI file unlike for example standard VCD video which sets a standard for resolution, bit rates, and codecs used.

In saying of AVI is a chunk-based container file format, we are saying that AVI is a derivative of the Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF), which divides a file's data into blocks, or "chunks." Each "chunk" is identified by a FourCC tag. An AVI file takes the form of a single chunk in a RIFF formatted file, which is then subdivided into two mandatory "chunks" and one optional "chunk". [P.S. FourCC (literally, four-character code) is a sequence of four bytes used to uniquely identify data formats. Later, this idea is used to identify compressed data types in QuickTime and DirectShow.
The first sub-chunk is identified by the "hdrl" tag. This sub-chunk is the file header and contains metadata about the video, such as its width, height and frame rate. The second sub-chunk is identified by the "movi" tag. This chunk contains the actual audio/visual data that make up the AVI movie. The third optional sub-chunk is identified by the "idx1" tag which indexes the offsets of the data chunks within the file.

By way of the RIFF format, the audio/visual data contained in the "movi" chunk can be encoded or decoded by software called a codec. Upon creation of the file, the codec translates between raw data and the (compressed) data format used inside the chunk. An AVI file may carry audio/visual data inside the chunks in virtually any compression scheme, including Full Frame (Uncompressed), Intel Real Time (Indeo), Cinepak, Motion JPEG, Editable MPEG, VDOWave, ClearVideo / RealVideo, QPEG, and MPEG-4 Video.

FLV is short for Flash video. Flash video is the name of a file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player (formerly known as Macromedia Flash Player) version 6, 7, 8, or 9. Until version 9 update 2 of the Flash Player, Flash video referred to a proprietary file format, having the extension .flv. The most recent public release of Flash Player supports H.264 video. Flash video content can also be embedded within SWF files. Notable users of the Flash video format include YouTube, Google Video, Reuters.com, Yahoo! Video, and many television news operations are also using Flash video on their websites.

Flash video is viewable on most operating systems, via the wide availability of Adobe Flash Player and web browser plugin, or one of several third-party programs such as MPlayer, VLC media player, Quicktime, or any player which uses DirectShow filters (such as Media Player Classic, Windows Media Player, and Windows Media Center).

Generally, in order to help well interpret what is FLV, we can lay out the primary features of it right here:

1. It's the best format for the compressed video in Flash (best quality and smallest file size).

2. It's native format to Adobe Flash (FLV is not used for any other software).

3. It can be created from AVI, MOV, WMV, MP3, MP4, 3GP, DVD (using our converter tools like Flash Video MX, MX Pro, and MX SDK and software programs from other companies).

4. Generally, almost all the videos on the web with a Flash Player are in FLV format. (Videos on YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video are all of this kind.)

source:

http://www.video-to-flash.com/dvd_to_flash_converter/

http://www.video-to-flash.com/dvd-to-swf/

http://www.video-to-flash.com/dvd-to-flv/

How to make a movie preview and share on your website

2009-03-08T22:29:00.000-07:00

When you were watching movie, do you ever think about to make a preview of the movie? Cut some wonderful clips and add your favorite song as a background would be very interesting. I always dream to do that and finally I find an application which can help me to realize it.

This article will tell you how to use Moyea Flash Video MX Pro to rip the video from your DVD firstly (How to convert DVD to FLV), and then edit it.

Step1. Download and install this software.

After you launch the software, you will see this interface.

main interface

Step2. Import DVD files.

Open the drop-down menu (in red) next to the folder button and choose Run DVD Loader. The Browse for Folder dialog pops up. Choose the DVD, and then you can see this interface.

Take a look at the information of the DVD file listed in the list. Then double click the title or a chapter under the title to select it. From the right drop down lists, select the Audio, Subtitle, and Angle for the file you want to convert. Click Load DVD or Load IFO to add more files to the list.

After all of the settings, press OK to return to the main interface.

Step3. Edit your video.

Here what we need to do is to trim some excellent clips for the further editing. Choose your favorite sections and trim. You can insert the exact time or just drag the triangle button. Mostly three clips will be enough, so that mean you need to do this three times. Continue press Next and convert the clips to FLV for further editing.

Step4. Press Next and we can see this interface.

Like I said before, you can convert the DVD files to FLV only by disable Generate Flash (SWF). So when we have had the three clips, import the second clip, and add the first and the last clip in Misc section> Video prelude/ Video curtain. In Replace audio, import your song to replace the original audio. But here I suggest you to generate SWF too, because it can allow you to add beautiful player skin and preloader. And it also can generate .html file for you to use as a webpage directly.

Step5. Press Next, walk in this interface.

In this section you can add player skin, preloader and some special effects. You can also set more parameters under "Profile" tab, such as auto play, auto load, navigation, etc.

Step6. Press Next, into the final step.

Click Start and wait a few seconds we will get what we want.

At last, I will teach you how to embed the SWF file into an HTML page:

You can code the page like the following:

Well, have you noticed the mflvplayer.swf in blue? Replace it with the SWF file you generated. Here you can also type in the URL of the SWF, such as http://www.myhomepage.com/mflvplayer.swf
The width="720" height="555" in black indicates the width and the height of your video.
You can add or reset the param name values to configure the video.

source:
http://www.video-to-flash.com/dvd_to_flash_converter/
http://www.video-to-flash.com/dvd-to-swf/
http://www.video-to-flash.com/dvd-to-flv/

How to encode video to Flash with Command Line?

2009-03-05T20:40:00.000-08:00

Flash Video MX SDK V2 is an application to create Flash (SWF), Flash video (FLV) and AAC/H.264 MP4 video from almost all video formats.

MX SDK consists of two interfaces: Command Line and COM, thanks to which it can be used under a great range of programming languages like: Visual C++, Visual Basic, .Net, ASP, Delphi, PHP, ColdFusion, etc.
Encode video to Flash with Visual C++, PHP, ColdFusion...
This program is widely used in server applications to automatically convert videos in virtually any format to FLV, AAC/H.264 MP4, SWF for a video sharing website construction like that of YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo!Video, Daily Motion, MySpace, etc. It is also widely adopted by multimedia applications for its video to FLV, AAC/H.264 MP4, and SWF conversion.

Then, how does MX SDK V2 work? How to create an FLV, AAC/H.264 MP4, and SWF with this SDK?

While with its set of functions like video editing for a better visual effect, text and image watermarking, Flash 8 encoding, Flash 8 alpha video encoding, processor locking, processor priority, interactive mode, and video cropping and trimming, etc, it is easy to command.

Then, how does MX SDK V2 work? How to create an FLV, AAC/H.264 MP4, and SWF with this SDK? As long as you are moving on following exactly what the “Help document” integrated in the program, you are sure to make it.

The following is a rough demonstration of conversion from myvideo.avi to myflv.flv.
Source video: myvideo.avi Path: D:\Documents and Settings\yuki\Desktop
Target flv: myflv.flv Path: E:\myflv.flv
Target SWF:myswf.swf Path: E:\myswf.swf

OK, start and run the application:
Type in the command: flashvideomx –s “D:\Documents and Settings\yuki\Desktop\myvideo.avi” “E:\ myflv.flv”, and press “Enter” to start the conversion.

Convert the output myflv.flv to myswf.swf:
Type in the command: FLV2SWF “E:\ myflv.flv” “E:\ myswf.swf”, and press “Enter” to launch the FLV to SWF conversion.

The command lines above are basically for conversion, and a lot of advanced functions can be realized by more command lines:

1. Convert a video file to FLV with the original dimension and frame rate:
flashvideomx -s myvideo.avi myflash
This command is to convert myvideo.avi to myflash.flv.

2. Convert a video file to FLV with settings of output dimension, video bit rate, frame rate, audio sample rate, audio bit rate and audio channel:
flashvideomx -s myvideo.avi myflash -vs 320x240 -vbr 400000 -abr 64000 -asr 22050 -ac mono -vfr 25
This command is to convert myvideo.avi to myflash.flv with 320x240 as dimension, 400kbps as video bit rate, 64kbps as audio bit rate, 22050Hz as audio sample rate, monophonic channel and 25fps as frame rate.

3. Add a LOGO image to the video:
flashvideomx -s myvideo.avi myflash -l "mylogo.jpg" -ls 100x100 -la_origin 0 -la_off 10:10 -lt 0:10000 -lt e-10000:10000
This command is to stretch mylogo.jpg to 100x100 in dimension and show the image when the video starts to play and last 10000 milliseconds, and show the image again when there are still 10000 milliseconds to the end of the video, and last 10000 milliseconds with the coordinate (10,10).
flashvideomx -s myvideo.avi myflash -l "mylogo.jpg" -ls 100x100 -la_origin 0 -la_off 10:10
This command is to stretch mylogo.jpg to 100x100 in dimension and show the image from the beginning to the end of the video with the coordinate (10,10).

4. Add characters to the video:
flashvideomx -s myvideo.avi myflash -t "Text to show on video" -ta_origin 0 -ta_off 0:0 -lt 0:10000 -lt e-10000:10000
It is to show “Text to show on video” in the top left corner and show the characters when the video starts to play and last 10000 milliseconds, and show the characters again when there are still 10000 milliseconds to the end of the video, and last 10000 milliseconds.
flashvideomx -s myvideo.avi myflash -t "Text to show on video" -ta_origin 0 -ta_off 0:0
-tff "Times New Roman" -tf_style 0 -tf_size 24 -tfe 0 -tfc FF0000 -tfa 80
>It is to show the semi-transparent characters “Text to show on video” in the top left corner with “Times New Roman” as font, “24” as size, “FF0000” as color (red).

5. Sequence several videos into one file:
flashvideomx -s headervideo.avi -s myvideo.avi -s tailervideo.avi myflash
It is to connect headervideo.avi, myvideo.avi, and tailervideo.avi together and convert them to one file: myflash.flv

6. Replace the audio data in the video file:
flashvideomx -sv myvideo.avi -sa myaudio.mp3 myflash
It is to replace the audio data in myvideo.avi with myaudio.mp3, and then convert to myflash.flv.

7. No audio:
flashvideomx -s myvideo.avi myflash -i v
This command is to generate an FLV file without audio data.

8. No video:
flashvideomx -s myvideo.avi myflash -i a
This command is to generate an FLV file without video data.

9. Get thumbnail picture:
flashvideomx -s myvideo.avi myflash -gp mypic.jpg -gp_size 120x120
This command is to convert myvideo.avi to myflash.flv, and generate a random mypic.jpg in size 120x120 as the thumbnail picture.

flashvideomx -s myvideo.avi myflash -gp mypic.jpg -gp_size 120x120 -gpt 60000
This command is to convert myvideo.avi to myflash.flv, and generate pictures in mypic.jpg with the size of 120x120 in dimension in the given 60000 milliseconds.
flashvideomx -s myvideo.avi myflash -gpw 10:mypic??.jpg -gp_size 120x120
This command is to convert myvideo.avi to myflash.flv, and capture 10 pictures in 120x120 dimension as: mypic01.jpg, mypic02.jpg, ..., mypic10.jpg.

10. Convert the video to FLV with time trimming:
flashvideomx -s myvideo.avi -st 0:300000 myflash
This command is to convert myvideo.avi with 300000 milliseconds from the starting point of the video into myflash.flv.
flashvideomx -s myvideo.avi -st 0:300000 -st e-300000: 300000 myflash
This command is to convert the two video parts in myvideo.avi to myflash.flv. One is the part from the start point to the 300000ms point. The other part is the one from the point 300000ms before the end point to the end point.

What's the Different between SWF and FLV?

2009-03-04T21:24:00.000-08:00

Always visit Yahoo Answer, sometimes, I will find people confuse with the difference between SWF and FLV. I am willing to reply people's question as long as I know its answer. In fact, this question can be replied by one sentence, that is, SWF (acronym of “Shockwave Flash”) actually is a Flash movie, and it can be viewed as a Flash animation format, while the FLV is Flash Video, which is a Flash video format. Both of them can be created by Adobe Flash.

More specifically, SWF is a proprietary file format for multimedia and especially for vector graphics. It can contain animations or applets of varying degrees of interactivity and function in order to be small enough for publication on the Web. Therefore, SWF is currently the dominant format for displaying animated vector graphics on the web which is very popular and be commonly used. What's more, SWF is sometimes used for creating animated display graphics and menus for DVD movies, and television commercials.

FLV, as a Flash video format, is also very popular on the web. You can always see the videos on the website like YouTube, Google Video, MySpace TV. After you download the video from YouTube, you will find the downloaded video's file extension is .flv, which means it is the FLV video. It is also in a small size and can be loaded on the web easily. We can take the YouTube video as an example, the video on the website we can consider as a FLV files with a player in it. Once you download it to your local computer, you just download the content, that is the FLV, to your website, but the player is still on the YouTube website. If you want to play the FLV on your website, you need to embed it to a player. While the SWF can be seen as a container and we can embed the FLV files into SWF and play it. So, under some conditions, SWF file can be divided into two parts, the Flash Video (animation content) and the SWF player (Adobe Flash Player is commonly used to play the SWF).

Generally, SWF file is a completed, compiled and published file and can not be edited by Adobe Flash, however, many SWF converters or FLV encoders do exist. These little tools will help us convert the video to Flash Video (FLV) or Flash Movie (SWF) to be published in the website for sharing. As we all know, because of the widely use of Flash player 8 and Flash player 9, nearly any Flash Movie can be easily played on every browser.

Therefore, it is not surprising to find many people Google for the FLV encoder, FLV converter, or SWF converter. Now the video sharing websites like YouTube have attracted people's attention, and then follows the popularity of the FLV downloader and FLV player, which has become a fashion today. Even if you are not familiar with Flash making, you can get Flash video or movie as well. Just choose a Flash Converter. It can help you to upload your video with a small size in the form of FLV. The Moyea Flash Video MX can convert your video into FLV, SWF, HTML and images, which can be easily delivered around the Internet. By using it, you do not need to be a Flash genius, just click some buttons, then you will get the Flash Movie you want, if it is necessary, you can edit your Flash Movie as you like because this little tool provide you such function.

PS:

If you are a newbie in learning Flash, and want to know how to make a Flash Movie, just click http://www.flvsoft.com/create_flash/

source:
http://www.video-to-flash.com/knowledge_base/
http://www.video-to-flash.com/dvd_to_flash_converter/
http://www.video-to-flash.com/dvd-to-swf/
http://www.video-to-flash.com/dvd-to-flv/

The best Flash encoder for you to export perfect Flash movie?

2009-03-04T00:34:00.001-08:00

We all know that if we want upload videos to our website, we had better convert video to SWF file. There are a lot of applications can do the convert job, but it is not easy to find a good software that can convert videos as well as edit videos.

Here you can save your time from hopeless searching and try this software – Moyea Flash Video MX Pro. It is the best Flash encoder I ever see, it support import nearly every regular video format and can do trimming and cropping of your video, add water mark, add cue point, add player skin and preloader on your video. At last, you can generate an .flv file, a .swf file and an .html file.

This article will teach you how to use this best Flash encoder to export a perfect Flash movie.

Step1. Download and launch this software.

After you import the video you can see this interface.

Do you notice the edit functions? Here you can trim and crop your video, add a watermark in your video even capture a snapshot from the video.

Step2. If you satisfied with your original video just keep the default and press Next to continue.

This interface is prepared for you to make the export settings.

Here you can choose to generate .flv file and .swf file or generate .swf file only, but you need to embed the video in .swf and play in timeline. In Misc section, you can add a piece of video before or behind your source video.

Press Next, you can see this interface.

Step3. Add player skin, preloader and special effects.

There are many beautiful player skins and preloader for you to choose. And you also can add some special effect to make your video special.

Step4. Step to convert.

If you see this interface, that mean you have on the last step to convert. Press Start and you will get your .swf file in a few minutes.

How to embed SWF file into an HTML page?

You can code the page like the following:

Well, have you noticed the mflvplayer.swf in blue? Replace it with the SWF file you generated. Here you can also type in the URL of the SWF, such as http://www.myhomepage.com/mflvplayer.swf
The width="720" height="555" in black indicates the width and the height of your video.
You can add or reset the param name values to configure the video.

At last, upload the generated SWF and FLV files to the same folder together with this page. And you can enjoy it on your webpage now!

How to convert DVD files to SWF directly?

2009-03-02T22:32:00.000-08:00

Last week I reviewed The Departed. Man, that is really a good movie and I want to insert a portion into PPT (how to insert SWF into PPT, please refer to http://www.video-to-flash.com/flash-in-powerpoint/ ) which I will use in my class, but firstly I need to convert it to SWF file from the DVD. Maybe you will ask how to convert DVD to SWF? Fortunately, I purchased Flash Video MX Pro a few months ago. With this software I can convert nearly every video format to SWF. For instance, DVD to SWF/FLV, AVI to SWF/FLV, MOV to SWF/FLV, WMV to SWF/FLV, MP4 to SWF/FLV, 3GP to SWF/FLV, MPEG to SWF/FLV, etc.

Anyway, this article will tell you how to convert DVD to SWF directly with Moyea Flash Video MX Pro.

Step1. Download and launch this software.

After you open the software, you will see this interface.

Step2. Import DVD files.

Open the drop-down menu (in red) next to the folder button and choose Run DVD Loader. The Browse for Folder dialog pops up. Choose the DVD, and then you can see this interface.

Take a look at the information of the DVD file listed in the list. Then double click the title or a chapter under the title to select it. From the right drop down lists, select the Audio, Subtitle, and Angle for the file you want to convert. Click Load DVD or Load IFO to add more files to the list.

After all of the settings, press OK to return to the main interface.

Step3. Edit your video.

Here, in this interface as the above screenshot. In this interface, you can trim and crop your video; add an image or a text watermark as you wise; set effect as video brightness, contrast and original audio volume; capture a snapshot; even add cuepoint which can show your ideas in the preset time when you want the event to happen.

Step4. After all these settings, press Next and we can see this interface.

Forget the complex settings, if you want to get a SWF file, please check the options to Generate Flash (SWF), just see the option red marked above. And don’t forget we also can generate a FLV file and a HTML file (If you don’t need, please not choose). Apart from that, you can even add other video in the beginning and end of your original video, including replace the original audio with others you like, which can be set in the Misc section. All these settings will make your video distinguished.

Step5. Press Next, walk in this interface.

Add player skin, preloader and special effects on your video, they will make the video more attractive. And this software provides many beautiful player skins, special effects and preloaders, which you can add in your video directly.

Step6. Press Next, into the final step.

Here just press Start and wait a few minutes, the output file will pop up to you after the conversion is finished, and then you will get the stunning SWF you want. Enjoy it.

source:

http://www.video-to-flash.com/knowledge_base/

http://www.video-to-flash.com/dvd_to_flash_converter/

http://www.video-to-flash.com/dvd-to-swf/